Drew2
09-21-2007, 02:38 AM
Or anyone with programing experience.
So basically family-owned IT company I work for is currently too cheap to purchase time-tracking, customer report, etc. software and basically I am to the point where I'll just write something myself that will drag us along until we can be not cheap.
What I want most immediately is a web form (or, failing that, a self-contained exe/script) that will generate a document in a certain format based on information typed in by the user.
For example, I want like the consultant's name, the client they visited, the date, the time spent there, the work completed, materials used, price of materials, etc. etc.. This can all be entered in a very simple text-box-like environment (I don't care how ugly it looks, it's not for customers to see), but I want it to output it to a well organized table that can be copied into an e-mail (or in this case, Quickbooks).
IDEALLY, I'd like to accomplish a couple other things as well. I would like a drop-down list of the clients we have (for uniformity's sake), perhaps even a list of consultants, and I'd like the ability to add to that list without having to physically change the code of the site. Furthermore, I'd like a e-mail subject (or file name, if it can be saved to a file) generated based on the client name (or abbreviation thereof) and the date when the form is submited (either to an e-mail address or directory on the server, I don't care).
Anyway, I guess my real question is, what programming language(s) would be best suited for this and most easily learned? I have limited programming experience (C++, HTML, lawl) but I learn almost anything I have a desire to extremely fast (via internet resources).
And I already have a web server at my disposal with MySQL, which I assume will be necessary for a task such as this.
HPEL THX K BAI.
So basically family-owned IT company I work for is currently too cheap to purchase time-tracking, customer report, etc. software and basically I am to the point where I'll just write something myself that will drag us along until we can be not cheap.
What I want most immediately is a web form (or, failing that, a self-contained exe/script) that will generate a document in a certain format based on information typed in by the user.
For example, I want like the consultant's name, the client they visited, the date, the time spent there, the work completed, materials used, price of materials, etc. etc.. This can all be entered in a very simple text-box-like environment (I don't care how ugly it looks, it's not for customers to see), but I want it to output it to a well organized table that can be copied into an e-mail (or in this case, Quickbooks).
IDEALLY, I'd like to accomplish a couple other things as well. I would like a drop-down list of the clients we have (for uniformity's sake), perhaps even a list of consultants, and I'd like the ability to add to that list without having to physically change the code of the site. Furthermore, I'd like a e-mail subject (or file name, if it can be saved to a file) generated based on the client name (or abbreviation thereof) and the date when the form is submited (either to an e-mail address or directory on the server, I don't care).
Anyway, I guess my real question is, what programming language(s) would be best suited for this and most easily learned? I have limited programming experience (C++, HTML, lawl) but I learn almost anything I have a desire to extremely fast (via internet resources).
And I already have a web server at my disposal with MySQL, which I assume will be necessary for a task such as this.
HPEL THX K BAI.