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[Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com>]

At 12/30/2002 04:10 PM, you wrote:

> and does anyone know of a cheap way to create a database without using an 
> actual database (eg. mySQL)?  I don't know squat about databases, which is 
> why I'm asking.  I don't want to create anything fancy.  I'd like to 
> create a few small bibliography files, be able to post one or the other of 
> said files to an html page, and be able to correctly update said files via 
> a form.  This wouldn't be a list of hundreds of books, perhaps around a 
> hundred for the combined files; so I don't think I need a full-fledged 
> database, but of course I could be wrong....?
>
> -Alan
> ---

Alan,

I would suggest using a Yahoo Group. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/

You can create your own yahoo group then use the "database" feature of the 
yahoo group to maintain on-line tables of information. You can use the 
Yahoo groups features to control who has access to reading the tables of 
information and who has access to create/update/delete information in the 
tables. I have never used it for anything serious, but I have played around 
with it some and it seems quite flexible.

The beauty of this is that you don't have to run the server. You don't have 
to install anything. You don't have to program anything.

The only downside (if you can call it that) is that people have to have a 
Yahoo ID to access it and you can't customize how it looks. But hey, it's 
free.



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