business forms, etc

[Mike Starke]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:36:50PM -0700, Brian Tafoya wrote:
/_What we have done for our business is build web-based forms in PHP and
/_tied them to MySQL. :) Works extremely well!
/_
/_-- 

Sounds like the 'html' output I finally refered to. I am begining
to think good ole fashioned Perl|PHP/MySQL is the way to go for all
of this. I devised a Perl/MySQL invoice system that utilizes
3 tables to crank out invoices. Simple, clean, works anywhere, and
even spits out the invoice in XML if I ever have a need.

However, Dereck's suggestion with taging a OO document then run
a report also sounds interesting.

I really hate to see this thread die a quick death. To me, this
document/form creation/managment stuff is the heart and soul
of all small->medium businesses. We really need a coherent, easy to use
OS solution to these issues (One of the reasons I'm just chomping
at the bit waiting for GNUe to mature a bit more :-)

v/r
-Mike