[Sussex] An actual Linux application question :-)

[Geoff Teale]

Mark wrote:
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> A mate of mine is setting up, with two former colleagues, a small
> consulting business.
> 
> They are each going to be working from their homes.
> 
> They want a shared database to manage their contacts on (normal
> marketing things like - name, company, email, phone no, last contact,
> letters sent, Christmas card list....etc....)
> 
> They are looking at Access :-0
> 
> I have persuaded him to "give me a couple of days" to come up with an
> alternative. My mate has (BT!) ADSL, so will be able to host the
> "server".
> 
> I'm assuming that there must be packages out there to hook up 
> to a MySQL
> backend, and provide a web front-end already there...
> 
> I know I _could_ go and surf sourceforge for a while, but would rather
> ask if anyone already knew of something?

There are a wealth of such things.  A very simple one if detailed here

http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmtpgphpmysqltablepagegenerator/?topic_id=67

..and something a bit better is here:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/myphile/?topic_id=68

There is also a wealth of GUI clients available.

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geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
geoff at tealeg.uklinux.net
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