business forms, etc

[Jim]

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On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:14, Mike Starke wrote:
> 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!
> /_
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> 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.

I agree that most small to medium size businesses can get all of their
reporting and data entry done with a <choose your scripting
language>/Apache/PhP solution.  They are easy to construct and can be
quite flexible.

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> However, Dereck's suggestion with taging a OO document then run
> a report also sounds interesting.
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> 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 :-)
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> v/r
> -Mike
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 Jim

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