Posted by Carl Pearson on 01/27/07 12:20

Rik wrote:
> Carl Pearson <jman_spam_trap_.org@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Al Franz wrote:
>>> Recall once seeing an easy to use Ascii Text Data Base to easily
>>> attach to a web based form. Anyone recall the name of it, or
>>> something similar. Need to create simple web based data entry form
>>> and the data to dump into a CSV or text database.
>>
>> You'd need write privileges to the file, why not just use MySQL?
>
> MySQL might not be available...
>

You're absolutely right, but I figured any host that didn't have MySQL
sure wouldn't have writeable folders, either.

>> When you need to get the data back out you just have your script
>> output query results in CSV format and download it.
>
> If there's no database present, I'd opt for SQLite. That way one can get
> at least basic SQL syntax.
>

Wouldn't that require shell access? Sounded like this was for the web.
Not mutually exclusive, but not all hosts have SSH either.

Actually, the original poster didn't really provide enough info to give
a good response. Shutting up now! ;)

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