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by wetwilly92
Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:55 pm
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases
Replies: 7
Views: 206

Re: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases

Okay,

So I guess the better question (or questions, rather) to ask is what is that standard for managing many pieces of information such as this? Is there an article about the standard? Is it possible to quickly and efficiently extract that data from excel and make it standards-compliant?
by wetwilly92
Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:18 pm
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases
Replies: 7
Views: 206

Re: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases

Interchange was the company's idea. I would have initially gone with a mysql database because that is what I am comfortable with. Either way, we're getting somewhere, the next step is in understanding this "Interchange" software. From what I took, it is used to mimic a mysql database, and ...
by wetwilly92
Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:29 pm
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases
Replies: 7
Views: 206

Re: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases

Burrito wrote:
wetwilly92 wrote:Would somebody be as kind to point me to a starting point?
to what? I didn't see any questions in that post.... 8O
Good Point,

Okay, I suppose that I should first ask, Why are these people using Excel and how does this method work (in an ideal example).
by wetwilly92
Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:18 pm
Forum: PHP - Code
Topic: Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases
Replies: 7
Views: 206

Fairly Confused.. Excel and Databases

I decided to learn php/mysql as a hobby last summer, and have been working on developing my ability to use the language. For the most part, I am still a newbie to the language (well, both languages). Recently, I was offered to work on a new project that is confusing me quite thoroughly. I have searc...