direction on design

[enjoying28]

Okay I am trying to make a site that functions as described below. My question is what is the best or simplest or most stable approach to designing a site the does this? Flash, PHP, Java, Perl or even something else maybe?

Here is what I want the site to do. Collect data from a fixed set of URLs (this is an external site the user must already be logged into striped out and table of information on these two pages and permanently store the information then process it with some precisely stored information and display a new table. also display charts based on this store and gathered data. I would like to have users that have differnet levels of access some that can only play with the charts and some that can run the info gathering and a top level that can change the formulas that the data is processed with.

this may take many types of coding and page creation. just want some direction.

 

[jcollings89]

use php to retrieve the data from the URL's using $_GET[] and process the stored information using mysql database.

<?php
/* with a basic URL such as 
    www.www.com?item=2&page=something
    */

$page = $_GET['page'];
$item = $_GET['item'];

// query the database or datasource. with the url items $page, $item
?>

If you want an easy way to create complex graphs, download the pear php extension. or you can create graphs using basic html code

 

[jamesparker]

Hi

Php is simple and easy and it is not expensive and java is difficult and expensive.