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Posted by frothpoker on 11/13/06 10:39
PHPs real power is in serving up HTML pages.
I would suggest that unless concurrency is an issue that a browser
based solution would be the best if you want to use PHP and serve all
the data input as forms with server-side validation and all reports as
either HMTL or via email.
This way it makes no difference which machine is being used.
If you want security, you can validation the IP address of the
connecting machine (assuming static IP).
The only drawback is realtime validation with web apps as you normally
have to serve the page and then submit and validate the data. You can
validate client side with javascript and the growing use of Ajax makes
realtime validation easier, however it relies on having javascript
turned on in the browser which is probably OK in a controlled intranet
environment but may make for more issues in a more open commercial
environment.
Alternatively look at .NET where you can write (supposedly) one set of
code and compile it for both windows and linux.
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