Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- Subject: Re: AUGD: A Little SOS from Beijing...
- From: Emirates Mac <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:27:14 +0400
PHP, MySQL is great, I write little apps with it for our site all the
time. Recently we're looking at starting to offer training courses so
I wanted an app where we can list courses and let people register for
them, and another similar apps for people to register for some public
events we're working on. The main reason we went with FM Pro to do
our members database was that it was the easiest way to put a barcode
on our cards (we printout membership cards with the member's
membership number as a barcode, and laminate the cards). There are
ways of doing it with PHP though and I'll probably get around to that
eventually ;-) Or perhaps we can just use FMP as a frontend to a
MySQL db.
BTW, great to hear about the success in China!
Take care
Magnus
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Magnus Nystedt
President & Ambassador EmiratesMac User Group
Apple Product Professional
email@hidden
www.emiratesmac.com
On Feb 16, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Allen Emory wrote:
If you are going to go the route of a web based member database you
might consider mySQL. The biggest advantage is that it is free. It
also works well with PHP (free and included on your mac already) a
natural for writing the web interface. The down side is that it is
a lot of work.
This is Triangle Macintosh Users Group keeps its records. Actually
you really don't need to build an interface at all, use phpMyAdmin.
And if you have it on a webserver everyone can access it (as long
as they have the password). Now you have decentralized database
administration.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
There are other mySQL based solutions. If you are using Mac OS X
server you already have mySQL installed. You just need something
like phpMyAdmin to admin the database. (well you don't really need
that, you can do it all through terminal, but do you want to? well,
maybe :-D )
mySQL and phpMyAdmin can both be installed via DarwinPorts
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/
oh, and yes MySQL supports Chinese character sets.
Allen Emory
Triangle Macintosh Users Group
http://www.tmug.org
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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