Hi, I work for a nonprofit. That means we have no money to buy tools. Normally, M$ gives us stuff, however. Consequently, we are a M$ shop - though I am trying to move everything to open source... it will take years and years and years. People are very resistant to change here. Anyhow. I need to build an online intake form, so people who come into the office can sit at a machine and put their information in, then have it update the database. We have SQL Server licenses. Also, Access and I wouldnt mind learning MySQL and working with it. I also need to potentially generate reports and have staff be able to search on name and get a list returned to them, then select a row to see detail. You can imagine, Im sure. Nothing crazy. Pretty straightforward. Our Frontpage key is expired or not working... I dont know... the admin is flaky. I am not so keen on using it anyhow. What other tools out there would you reccomend? I did a *little* Cold Fusion development several years ago. I have done PowerBuilder and HTML development. I do not know as much as I should, but I went to jail for a few years and was out of the loop. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! JD
i would advise (if your server is ms right now) build it in ASP or ColdFusion - using your MsSQL server. Then when you move to a *nix web-server you can still connect to the MsSQL with php