[Resolved] Using files & permissions

[Oubipaws]

How would I go about doing this:

My company currently does all of our transaction reports in excel... this mean thats we have roughly 600 rows and 10 columns in a current excel sheet.

They want to make a web based system with passwords (any sort of good security) that will allow them to go in and modify these items in the excel sheet through the web.

So lets say for example, admin wants to find product #1234-5678, he goes in, clicks search, and it then displays all of the information concerning that number (meaning it displays all the rows of information around this item.)

I really need some help on this... thanks guys

[stolzyboy]

well, if you have a windows box, running php, then you can have a look into com

or you can check into this which will work on *nix, but it isn't free

[Oubipaws]

Sorry I forgot to mention the OS and things like that:
we have a windows 2000 server and have php set up

thanks for your help... but the link doesn't work for me 🙁

[Oubipaws]

it works now.. sorry server acting up
<edit>can you explain to me what this is? I am rather new to PHP, I have been coding for about a year (in php), but I am still rather new to it</edit>

[stolzyboy]

this is a somewhat of a large subject, and don't really have the time to explain it fully, but here is an article written here at phpbuilder that should explain it for you

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alain20001003.php3

[Oubipaws]

thanks very much, that linked helped me out