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danny_galaga:

Google Doc Spreadsheets sounds promising. I'll have a look. And Drupal as well. I started looking at this:

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql

which for me looks scary, although I think I could probably cut and paste most of his example. But it's the 21st century, something with a GUI would be much better for me. No point having computers that run magnitudes faster than ever and still be tapping in code for everything!

danny_galaga:

I'm having a hard time trying to even find exactly what it is I need. Pretty much exactly what I need is like the default menu in mame32. Where you can click on any column and it arranges the data in order. In this example, I've arranged it by year. What am I searching for to do something like this?

newmanfamilyvlogs:
there are endless ways to do that. it looks like what you need is going to be whatever has the least setup time and the easiest to operate. i'd do a lot of looking at the google spreadsheets. it will probably get you 90% of what you're looking for with no effort.

danny_galaga:
I posted the same question on another forum at the same time. Someone lead me to this:

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

By basically aping his webpage and uploading the sorttable.js file I've gotten to this stage:

http://dannygalaga.com/table2.html

as an experiment.

Pretty damn close to what I wanted. I have noticed that as it stands, I have to fill every space in the table for it to work properly. So for instance I've had to put '1. Spring 1980' in seven rows. And 'The Answer' 3 times, as well as the writer of that story, 'Stan Lee'. If I don't fill every space, things get screwy when you click on different headers. If that's not easily fixed, Then I'm still really happy with what I'm doing so far (",)

The google docs I found to be too ugly, and too slow by the way. But thanks for all the replies. I'm amazed I've gotten this far!

jrivelli:
Hey man very cool! Pretty sweet you have gotten that far and it seems that is mostly what you are looking for :)

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