[Avenir]

I run the website (loosely used term) for a small organization. We currently have an excel file somewhere with 300+ members names in it. We'd like to setup a simple web database where people can, say, search for any members living in Pennsylvania or similar. It would only need a few fields (name, location, organization, email, phone) but expansion would be great. I know enough about PHP and MySQL to get it installed and maintain something, but I just don't know where to start, and I'm hoping that there is an OpenSource or other cheap/free contact database I could install and use.

In an ideal world we'd like a user to be able to login and control/edit their information and what they have available to the general public. I understand this would be much more complicated that a static, searchable database, so I'll hold on that for now, unless it's included in a package somewhere. I'm hoping someone on here can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

[besson3c]

Why not start with installing phpMyAdmin? Using it, you can create your database, structured appropriately, and import your data from your Excel spreadsheet directly into your database.

If you want a more streamlined interface, write your own, but you may find that phpMyAdmin's interface works fine for you.

[Avenir]

I may start with that tonight, at least to setup the database. I'm probably a little shakier on the front-end side for displaying and searching within in once it is setup.