Re: User Defined Forms
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:20:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: User Defined Forms | ||
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:01:48 +0100, Shaun <shaunthornburgh@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am creating a site where users record details of their clients and record
> their progress. The whole point of the system is to reduce the amount of
> paper work and store everything online.
Like project management? Know about Dotproject and it's many plugins
and add-ons?
http://www.dotproject.net/
> The problem here is that each user will have their own forms to fill in on
> their clients, some will record different data to others and some will have
> more forms than others. Therefore I believe I am correct in saying this
> would be impossible to store in a database as each user would require their
Anything can be stored in a database. You can have tables like:
forms, users, and fields. forms relate to users, and fields relate to
forms.
> own fields etc. One other solution I have thought of is to have each user
> create a set of PDF forms when they sign up and each time they fill one in
> they upload it to the server for storage.
>
> I would be most grateful for anyone's input on this before I dive in head
> first!
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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
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