Loading user data to a web site

[ByteWizard]

I am working on a site where there will be a workshop schedule that changes on a monthly basis. I am struggling with the best way for the web site owner to update the schedule. She is capable of learning one of the ftp programs and uploading a file to the web host disk. A password protected form with several text input boxes for the new schedule would be nice, but I have not been able to find a way to go from a completed form to inclusion in the web page. I suspect MySQL would do this but I am not a SQL person (I do know Access fairly well). Most sites want a premium for SQL processing, and I hate to add this monthly cost just for this update.

Thanks

[Frank]

PHP and MySQL would be great for this. They are both free so hosts dont charge you tons of money like they would on a microsoft server. PHP/MySQL wil let you password protect pages (using sessions) and then you could write one page that just selects data from the database for a specific schedule...you can also update it through php/mysql aswell

A nice host thats cheap with support for PHP4/MySQL is phpwebhosting.com - I use them and they are great.

Good Luck

-Frank

[ByteWizard]

Thanks Frank,

I had a feeling this was going to be my best (only?) option. Hopefully I can learn enough about PHP/SQL to code this up.

[Steve Leader]

Another good place is Crazyhostguy.com. PHP and MySQL are free. They have some good packages as well. Check them out

Stephen Leader

[MikeParent]

If you know access already there is no reason you couldnt do something in PHP/Access.

Or for that matter because it sounds like the data is just flat and relatively static, you could even create a form that writes to a CSV text file and then have a PHP script that displays that csv text file.