On Thursday, September 15, 2011 09:08 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/14/11 6:03 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: >>> One day, if I have time, I want to programme a complete >>>> commercial accounts systems using HTML, PHP and MySQL. Its a >>>> piece of cake to do well (meaning easily) but a little time >>>> consuming. The only difficulty I can think of is printing >>>> things locally. >> I love the challenge. I'm a hacker from way back. While this sort of stuff >> isn't humorous now days and since I've 'grown up', I understand why. Still, >> I love it!! > > an accounting system thats in plain HTML would be incredibly clunky to > use. you really want to do this in ajax/jquery or whatever so its more > interactive > > also, I'd suggest using postgresql for better data integrity, and > anything-but-php (Python?) for better webside security. > How about perl with postgresql? sql-ledger - double entry goodness. Sure shorts out my brain when I try to contemplate creating the COA,