ok have a database what i would like to be able to do is view the entries say in a form one at a time then if need be edit an element of the database and update it think thats what i mean cheers Doug
Are you looking at something like maybe phpMyadmin if you're using MySQL so that you can modify raw row data in basically a spreadsheet like formating?
phpMyAdmin is horrible in my experience :-/ I'd rather use the MySQL Query Browser http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html