Right now the student-run newspaper I work at uses paper records and
an Access database to manage the alumni directory which includes their
current address, email, phone, etc., so people can keep in touch with
each other and the company. We'd like to move this information to a
web-based system: when an employee leaves (graduates) all we have to
do is create an account on this database, they enter all the
information themselves, and it is accessible to the company as well as
publically, if they so choose.
We don't necessairly need help with the conversion -- we're just
looking for a website that will allow users as well as administrators
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Request for Question Clarification by
ephraim-ga
on
20 Jul 2003 21:04 PDT
I can easily point you at tools that would allow you to write and/or
built software to interface with your database via the web, but I have
two questions first:
1) Are you aware of the fact that any tools of the type you want would
require at least some effort on your part to learn how the tool works
and possibly require some coding/programming as well?
2) Are you looking for web tools that are free or that require the
purchase of a commercial license? Keep in mind that the less money you
want to spend, the more programming you may need to do on your own.
(To tell the truth, I can tell you exactly what free tools could be
used to accomplish this in a very basic form, having done some of this
myself, but they would require some patience and learning on your part
to master the scripting languages involved.)
/ephraim
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Clarification of Question by
dlittle-ga
on
21 Jul 2003 08:29 PDT
I have some very limited experience programming in PHP, so I suppose
running the database/application myself would not be out of the
question, however since spending money is not an issue, I'm looking
for more of a commercial solution, where the company would handle
everything except the database itself
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Clarification of Question by
dlittle-ga
on
24 Jul 2003 12:33 PDT
I will accept an answer that explains how to set this up by myself. At
my disposal I have a Windows 2000 server, as well as a Linux machine,
which has the ever-popular apache/php/mysql setup running -- I assume
that what you had in mind would run on this. I am somewhat experienced
in setting up services similar to this, so please suggest some
software which would fit my needs. Thanks
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