How do I make simple multiple user access app?

[Stephen Barncard]

Keith;
Are you sure the resources aren't already available at the ISP the 
office already uses for its web site (assuming it has one)?

Your wife's fears notwithstanding, MySQL is offered with other web 
goodies at a very reasonable price at many ISPs, such as Dreamhost 
(less than $10/month with tons of goodies and space, including 
MySQL.) and others. You can have as many users as you need at once, 
many databases and a lot of diskspace and it's fast. This solves the 
problem of installing a server - you don't have to - and it's secure 
- Dreamhost MySQL servers only work outside the ISP (beyond 
localhost) with designated IPs you specify. All the machines need to 
be is to be connected and running your app.

I too had considered a text based database - I originally wanted to 
avoid the 'complexity' of dealing with SQL - it looked scary but 
Sarah's basic Rev SQL stacks made it all clear and Trevor Devore's 
new libraries turned my MySQL database into a perfect 'data box'.

>
>Personally, knowing something of what's needed, I'd have put a 
>PHP/MySQL solution at the top of the list if it was my own project. 
>But that requires more resources than are available for that office, 
>and my wife wouldn't speak to me for a week if I even suggested she 
>do it that way!