From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 16 December 2004 01:55

I have been experimenting with OpenDB tonight with a view to using it to manage the Alug library. As well as making the librarians life a bit easier it allows borrowers to check the loan status of books etc, post reservations and reviews/comments.

You can check it out in my test area here http://cgi.digimatic.plus.com/opendb/login.php

Looks very good. Basic functionality seems to be there and the I/F is reasonably intuitive (oh, and the horizontal theme seems to work ok).

Use the "sign me up" link to request a login (may take some time as I have to respond to a mail to make the user active)

There are still a few bugs to be ironed out (mainly because OpenDB is more geared towards lending entertainment media not books) and it still needs a general tidy up.

I would appreciate some feedback as to whether this is useable by ALUG members, fedback on bugs etc.

If deemed acceptable then I am happy to have a link on the ALUG site pointing to my hosting space, alternatively if MySQL and PHP are available wherever the ALUG main site is, it could be moved there when finished.

Personally, I'd go for it.

Regards,

Keith ____________ There is only one thing certain and that is nothing is certain. - G.K. Chesterton