Preserved Topic: Is PHP and MySQL the way to go?

Last year over the summer, I was working at my local school board doing some programming for them, mainly front-ends to their databases. I wrote a program in VC++ using an Access database, however the program is clunky, and I think they ended up staying with their old lotus system. Mainly because, well.. At the time I was still learning C++/etc.

However, just for a "something to do this summer due to lack of work" I was thinking of re-making the program, but done on the web. I know PHP pretty well (still not pro-star), and I am learing the ropes of MySQL, and was wondering if it would be "worth the learning" to do this project, or am I just pissing in the wind and it wont have any relevance to a real-world situation.

Basicly, what the program is for. Is for keeping track of teachers who apply to the school board, what classes they can teach, what level of teaching they can do (elementry, highschool, etc), their pre-interview rating, their rating, keep track of when they can work (part time, full time, substitute, etc). Add/remove and search capabilites on any number of fields.

So, should I use PHP and MySQL to tackle this self-enduced pain? or is there a better way to go for a web-based version of this program?

PHP/MySQL is a very good combination...

Yeah, PHP/MySQL is very good. I have seen some very robust systems using that combination.

And if you know any other language I don't think that you would have any problem learning PHP and MySQL is just SQL and if you get pretty lazy you could always use phpMyAdmin which works wonders for point and clicking your way to a database.

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definitely mysql.

the choice of the scripting-language isnt so important. but i too would go with php!