Re: spreadsheet program to store e-mails

Hi, Karen.
I'm a little confused.  Do you perhaps mean a database program, because
that's what you're describing and they are two different things.  At any
rate, be prepared to break out the smelling salts when the price of Oracle
is mentioned ;)

Our sites use MySQL extensively.  With a SQL statement here and there, we
can make it do all kinds of things for the client.  Best of all, MySQL is
now released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), read: FREE on all
platforms.  A vast number of web hosts also support MySQL and include it in
some hosting packages.  We do not recommend a host to a client unless the
host supports MySQL because there's just too much of an advantage to having
it.

With regard to pulling the data back out of the database and reusing it,
take a look at
http://www.squishedmosquito.com/cgi-bin/esp?PAGE=login.esp

This set of scripts does just what you're talking about.  It stores email
addresses and then allows you to send mail directly from the browser.  Works
with MySQL, runs on Apache or NT, the engine is a standalone binary that is
not server-dependent and both the script bundle and the engine are free and
available for download.

Best of all, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out <snicker>
and it's great for a non-programmer type web developer.  Not to mention that
your total cost is... what?  Zero? :-)

Best of luck!

Karin


----- Original Message -----
From: Noteworthy Web Designs <webmaster(at)noteworthydesigns.com>
To: HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:18 AM
Subject: spreadsheet program to store e-mails


> I have a customer who will have the e-mails from a submission form
> directed into a database on the server, from which she can download
> e-mail address without having to type them out. She's trying to decide
> which spreadsheet program to purchase to store this information. Any
> suggestions? She will be offering online courses in the future, and the
> company that's doing that suggests Sequal SQL. Others have told her
> Oracle. I've not boned up on any of these programs yet, so I could use
> some advice to pass on to her.
>
> --
> Karen Stafford
> Noteworthy Web Designs
> "Websites Composed with Jazz"
> Web Design,Hosting,Search Promotion
> http://www.noteworthydesigns.com
>

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