Re: script for one page database based catalog

Hello Jeff and all,

You all are just awesome! I never thought my little request for input 
would cause such rich and helpful response :-)

The server platform is linux and there are up to 10 MySQL databases 
included in the hosting account my client is signed up to.

It seems from most of the answers that PHP and MySQL is the way to 
go. Jalal's suggestion on doing this sounds so incredibly easy... 
(thanks!)

This is new to me (I'm used to Perl quite a bit though) and I'd 
appreciate some advice on where to get started (are there shortcuts? 
:-) I have just started to learn PHP (Visual Quickstart Guide), 
independently from this sudden project.

This is really fun!

Greetings to all,

:: doris




At 11:30 PM -0400 9/23/03, Jeff Nelson wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:41:51PM -0700, Doris Kyburz wrote:
>>  Dear all,
>>
>>  I have an excel spreadsheet with about 900 items that should be
>>  turned into a form. Hard coding this animal would take forever...
>>
>>  Also, the client has to update pricing frequently and it would be
>>  ideal if they could do this easily by updating their basic excel
>>  spreadsheet and feed it into the database.
>>
>>  Here is how the basic excel spreadsheet structure looks like:
>>
>>  http://www.kyburz.net/projects/is/catalog_sample.html
>>
>>  Has anyone done something like this? What kind of script would you
>>  recommend? Ideal would be a free script.... :-)
>
>web server platform?
>available database software?
>
>Please be verbose.
>
>Have a great day!
>-jeff


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