I wanted to have a product grid or spreadsheet for my website. The grid would have 10-20 different product features as column headings and a variable number of rows being the different products. The number of products might be a maximum of 200, probably more like 50-100. I am thinking a flatfile database would be OK for this application.

A user could <click> on the column headings to sort the products based on the entry in that column. One of the row entries would be "Comments" and would link to a GT forum for discussion on that product.

There also needs to be a feature where the editor/admin could update, delete and add additional records to the grid. A simple search feature would be helpful so that searches could be made on more than one column but is probably not absolutely neccessary.

I am on a hosting account, can run cgi's and have a single mySQL database that is shared by GT Links and Forum. mySQLman comes with GT LinksSQL/Forum, but a simple flat-file db script might be more appropriate given the scale of this project.

Once I sort of know what to ask for, I will probably be posting a similar message to the Custom Modifications Jobs forum unless someone knows of a ready make package out there somewhere.

Thanks,
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Rob

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