{"id":2429,"date":"2002-06-26T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2002-06-26T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T14:06:58","slug":"rfq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/26\/rfq.html","title":{"rendered":"RFQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a quotations database which I call WIST (Wish I&#8217;d Said That).  I keep it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wist.info\">here<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a pride and a joy and a pain in the ass to maintain, because it all resides offline in an Access database which then takes a major effort to translate into the dumb, static (but oh-so-lovely) pages I have.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that there are enterprising web folk out there who read this, I am curious as to what it would take (cost) for one of you to actually create an online database with both data entry\/edit capability (for me) and online query and display capability (for viewers), along with an export capacity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for the basic functionality here.  I can mess up all the purty stuff all by myself, and I can probably maintain what someone else has put together for me without too much trouble.  My hosting plan has access to a MySQL database engine; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the proper route to go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to make updating WIST an ongoing effort, rather than a once-a-year multi-month grind.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to ask questions or inquire for more specifics.  I&#8217;m looking for a ballpark here, just to see if it would be a relatively cheap and easy project or a wildly expensive Bataan Death March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a quotations database which I call WIST (Wish I&#8217;d Said That). I keep it online here. 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