Recap

This chapter demonstrates fairly conclusively that creating an HTML front end to let a lot of users edit a database is often more trouble than it's worth. Used correctly, however, it can save you a lot of tedious work. This script, at the very least, can make the task of maintaining and publishing a simple database like a phone list a lot less boring than it used to be. In a company of any size, having a phone list that's reasonably up to date will probably save the company a surprising amount of money.

Oh yeah. Technology:

  • Some neat tricks to collect data submitted by a form, even if you don't know what the data is.

  • Storing that data in a database.

  • Create template-driven interfaces.

  • Using a password to limit who can use a script.

  • Organize ...

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