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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:11:16 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        aoertel@pacbell.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: My database
Message-ID:  <19990923091116.A6181@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <37E970CB.10F255D0@postoffice.pacbell.net>
References:  <37E970CB.10F255D0@postoffice.pacbell.net>

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* aoertel@postoffice.pacbell.net (aoertel@postoffice.pacbell.net) [990923 08:37]:
>I have no money. I am trying to develop an insurance agency management
>software program by using only free software. Please check out my
>website at  http://www.anthonyoertel.com .
>I have very limited knowledge of PHP3 and MYSQL. Nonetheless, I have
>placed two insurance quote forms on my website. I want to be able to do
>word processing, accounting, etc. from this website.
>Will  your FreeBSD software help me? I want to merge information from my
>database to a word processing program and save the word processing
>document as a record in a word processing file. I want to do all of this
>on my website.

FreeBSD is an Operating System and as such cannot do anything accept
provide functionality which third parties use to create software for.

Thus if one wants to run a webserver one could install Apache.

Ok, so you got Apache/PHP running with a MySQL backend [I would prefer
PostgreSQL, but that's my opinion ;)]. Now you got the information
submitted into your database by means of PHP.

Now, the last part requires you to pull the info from your database
and into some document. This can prolly be achieved with PHP as well.

Make it do soem SELECTs and use the file functions it provides to
save it to a text file. This text file can later on be used in a 
wordprocessor for more lovely markup.

HTH,

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we
were happy.


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