fox pro to lamp website

[bleak26]

I have a client with a database based physically in their building. It is in a shared office building with poor shared internet. My client is a recruitment agency, who wishes to use their database of info as the back end for a website from which can be displayed available jobs.
When their back end database ( foxpro ) date is altered the website should be altered too and vice versa. I have significant security concerns about using there database as the back end for a website.
I would use php and mysql for this task as it’s what I know, which is why I ask you guys. What advice would you give me on this task?

How would you do it? What questions would u ask? What concerns would u have?

[mcavic]

I agree that the Web site should be entirely LAMP. I wouldn't try to make the site access FoxPro, but rather have an application export automatically from FoxPro to MySQL.

Or, you could make the MySQL database the data's permanent home, and write a Web application for in-house use to replace FoxPro.

Either way, network connectivity would of course be critical, and I would probably want to redesign the LAN with security and performance in mind.