On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
John, > A few thoughts... > What software you use will depend on where you host the data. > Preferably it is hosted on a Linux box (because anything Microsoft is > evil, lol) and you're correct that MySQL will be the target storage engine. > John- Like Mike said you have some options... MySQL (or PostGReSQL) would be my choice for the data - I'm sure there are others. Do you know any ASP? I ask because at least for me the hard part about getting started writing backend database and reporting tools was realizing that as you load a page you can be going back and forth between static code (HTML) and dynamic code (the ASP or PHP). Once you get a handle on that your progress goes faster and faster... The concept is pretty simple - more or less pull the data using whatever criteria or options you or the user select, use HTML to build a table (as in HTML, not database), ratchet through the records and create the HTML tags for each line as you go.... You'll be doing a lot of "<TR><TD> </TR></TD> " matching... ;) It's been a while for me personally but a lot of the folks around here I'm sure are up to speed with this and happy to help... Good luck! -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAPT54rbrik2COjpAvM2Kq=sp1daucu_2z-asq0qj+in4knm...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
