Re: Idea for the future

[Gerry Hickman <gerry1@dircon.co.uk>]

Hi JC,

> > Yes, a good point and I imagine it would be tricky to support all
> > the database variants across a range of platforms.
> 
> DBI is a pretty good absrtaction layer for this sort of thing.  Not
> great as far as XML is concerned, but fairly transparent for the
> rest.

Do you know if this would work with Microsoft SQL server?

Your PHP idea is certainly interesting and is half way to what I was
aiming for in the original post. I guess I could set up a similar system
on NT using parsers and ASP, but it's a lot of messing with flat files,
hence my preference for the DB approach.

-- 
Gerry Hickman (London UK)