Posted by CptDondo on 05/02/07 21:49

Mike P2 wrote:

> A cron and a short script are probably all you need for updating this
> top-secret "stuff". PEAR probably has something for displaying data
> from a database table in an HTML table (as an ASP.net control might do
> by default), but I don't think you're going to find anything specific
> enough to just get your data like that and let customers log in to see
> it. You might use a CMS like Drupal for sessions and authentication
> and stuff like that, and then you would just need to alter it to fit
> your project and add the functionality (I don't think this should be a
> lot of work at all) to display that user's "stuff" data.

I kind of figured that the backend would have to be written from
scratch; it is fairly simple but there are some complications mostly due
to low bandwidth and expensive connections.

I'll check on CMS; it didn't even occur to me that that's what we're
really after... (Waaaay too stupid after staring at the same 80 lines
of code all morning....)

>
> Honestly, to me it doesn't seem all that complicated (maybe it would
> be more complicated if the project were described more), I would
> suggest having one person code the whole thing. It could be done with
> one script for the cron job, and another for login/view stuff & links/
> some other functionality, although the latter should probably be split
> up into two pages (or more if this really is more complicated than you
> described). I think it could be done in a day or two if you could find
> someone with nothing else to do.

It is fairly simple, except for the security/user management/etc stuff.

I was hoping to find a frontend with the eye candy UI that we like. :-)

--Yan

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