From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 0:22: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815D61576F for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.96]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB4D4A; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:21:26 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA06192; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:11:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:11:16 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: aoertel@pacbell.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My database Message-ID: <19990923091116.A6181@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <37E970CB.10F255D0@postoffice.pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <37E970CB.10F255D0@postoffice.pacbell.net> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message