Hello there,
Many of my clients log into my website to access their results data off my database (run a laboratory).
However some of my clients are in remote places (Namibia) where they cannot afford to sit and surf their results/data off the interenet (too slow, costly).
I need to be able to send them data that they can view on their pc's. The data would be a simple table - that would be read as a report.
It needs to be able to be downloaded or sent via email in 1 file. That file needs to amend and append to the file on their machines (I could just send all the data everytime but the file would get quite big).
Also if they decide to write comments on any of the data it would be nice if it could propogate back to my server.
What do you suggest, I thought about comma delimited files, someone suggested xml / rss - Can rss files update the existing file on the db?
I want to try and keep the whole admin thing as small as possible - so the less ODBC drivers etc needed the better.
Is there anything like this out there - opensource preferably? (I know- HTML, PHP, MySQL admin, Visual Basic).
regards
Andrew
