Re: Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP

... and you could provide hooks so that the billing/sales/inventory systems could all be separate "modules" of some sort, and you could add/swap out modules as they're needed... and perhaps have them communicate thru XML/SOAP, so that they could be on different hosts altogether. :-) There's a million things you could do, that's the beauty and curse of knowing how to program... too many projects and ideas, not enough time. -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote in message news:002f01c229ba$a796a9c0$8102a8c0@niigziuo4ohhdt... > [snip] > Computer Science student (yes, that's me...) by giving him some ideas on his > final year project very possible involving PHP and SQL... > [/snip] > > How about a billing system? Accepts orders, processes invoicing, tracks > customer trends and habits, has a method for tracking "aged" bills (over 30, > over 60, over 90, etc.), a method for collections, etc. Billing systems can > be quite complex and require extensive planning, they must tie in with > inventory systems, sales systems, etc. You could do the whole integration. > > HTH! > > Jay > >