On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
If there are enough interested parties why don't we look at the feasibility of / or attempt to produce some sort of solution based on a combination of Linux / MYSQL-ProgreSQL / Perl-Python-PHP and Apache ?
That's exactly what I am planning here, the big problem being the amount of time required to implement it. And to implement a solution that would work in other sites as well it's ten times the amount of effort.
I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with the commercial software that's been mentioned in this thread but for a possible open source solution you might want to have a look at: http://www.wdbi.net/ which queries a relational DB via a web interface. It might meet some of your needs but if nothing else give you some ideas to work on. I did set it up once as a front-end to MySQL and it worked well and it wasn't too much effort to set up. -- Frank Shute *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance.demon.co.uk/