Recap

This chapter demonstrates fairly conclusively that creating an HTML front end to let a lot of users edit a database is often more trouble than it's worth. Used correctly, however, it can save you a lot of tedious work. This script, at the very least, can make the task of maintaining and publishing a simple database like a phone list a lot less boring than it used to be. In a company of any size, having a phone list that's reasonably up to date will probably save the company a surprising amount of money.

Oh yeah. Technology:

• Some neat tricks to collect data submitted by a form, even if you don't know what the data is.

• Storing that data in a database.

• Create template-driven interfaces.

• Using a password to limit who can use a script.

• Organize a set of scripts to work together relatively efficiently.