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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Persistent, shared web form

My supervisor recently asked me to look into duplicating a system used in a place he used to work.  The way he described it, a form was embedded into an email which went to several people in a specific order.  Each person needed to enter info as well as view (and potentially edit) info entered by those earlier in the process.

Right now I'm looking to get a general idea of how such a thing might be implemented.  As in what kinds of 'tools' (ie SQL, PHP, etc.) would be involved, good places to find more information, etc.  Google results for 'persistent web form' were not related to what I'm looking for, so even suggestions in that regard would be appreciated.  I know there are better places to start than the Arch forums, but I'd like to get as much info as possible before creating an account somewhere else and asking questions.  Thanks.

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Re: Persistent, shared web form

It wasn't one of those stupid MS Outlook forms was it? It was definitely a HTML/Web form?

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Persistent, shared web form

It could have been.  All I can get from him is that it looked like a web form.  I think that was the same job where he developed his MS Access obsession.

For my purposes, the email part is irrelevant at this point.  I first need to know where to look to implement it to begin with.  The only thing I'm relatively certain of is that it will require a db backend for storing the data.

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
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