Needs script or database catalog - non-mysql

[slakker]

Hello all.. I'm having so much trouble with a lot of the basic scripts that run off mySQL db's on IIS server, that i just decided to seek an alternative method.. but what I need to do is have a small catalog of products with prices, that can be manually updated by the admin.. I don't need to sell anything online.. just a catalog to display the items/prices..

Is there any other way that you guys can think of to do this?

Thanks in advance!

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld slakker,

You could use a file to store this info. It would be easy enough to read/write from the file but you would have to quantify this for me.

small catalog of products with prices

define small

[slakker]

Hello jatar_k..

The catalog would have aprox. 40 items in it.
Would have to be viewed via html page (or php).

[jatar_k]

That is quite small. You could easily store this in a comma delimited file and use php to read/display it.

As far as updating it goes you could have an interface to make changes or even more simple may be to have a csv file, change it in excel, reupload the csv and voila, the changes are there.

It also depends on how much info you are storing about each item and what you plan on doing with it. If you are going to have shopping cart type thing then I would say you might want to work out the db but if it is just displaying data/info about the various products and then going to a contact us tyupe order form then it should be ok.

[john316]

MySql is bit of an overkill for 40 items. You could try this:

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[slakker]

Thanks a lot guys, this helps :)