which OSS product would be easiest to learn that is xPlatform

[David Bandel]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:40:44 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:02:37 +1100, James McDonald
> 
> 
> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> > I want to open a csv file which has column headings and rows of data...
> >
> > eg.
> >
> > COUNTRY,CITY,MODE,ISP,PHONE#,etc,etc
> > United Kingdom,London,Analog,Demon,012345678,
> > United States,Washington DC,Analog,AOL,023456789,
> > Australia,Sydney,Analog,Bigpond,0345678901,
> >
> > then feed that into the gui with each field being a drop down list that
> > filters i.e. if you select United States it filters all the remaining
> > fields so you only get records that have United States in it.
> >
> > and finally you only get a list of phone numbers for each local ISP's
> > POP... which you then pass to your dialler program....
> >
> > What sort of cross platfrom product could do this? and be familiar to
> > someone like my self who has created heaps of little windows VBA form
> > apps....
> >
> 
> Apache with almost any modern language, but PHP is my favorite.
> 

Hmm. My response is Apache w/ Perl (and depending on how large your
database is, a PostgreSQL or even a hashed db file backend).

Stay away from PHP unless you just like to rewrite all your PHP apps
every major upgrade (3-4 was a disaster, and upgrading to 5 looks like
it might be more of the same nonsense).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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