Web Database question

[kag]

Hi..
here's what I wanna do...

I have a list of 1000 users/passwords divided in 10 groups of 100 people and everyone from each group is redirected to a specific page. Like 10 from group1 people will be redirected to page1, 10 people from group2 to page2, etc etc.
They are redirected to a page depending on the group they belong to.. and of course, teh user/pass combinaison have to be correct.

I thought about those solutions:
PHP / mySQL
ASP / MS-Access
etc

but......... the server runs on Windows98.... and the server itself is OmniHTTPd right now. He installed the PHP module, so now PHP works but I think mySQL is kinda memory hungry on Win98 - is this true?.... and I checked for ChiliASP and Instant ASP, they only run on Win2k/NT too

So basicly, i'm down to OmniHTTPd / PHP / mySQL because it seems the only thing with a database that Win98 can run.....

Do you have any other ideas? Like some predefined scripts that would do the same thing in PHP or javascript (or anything else)?

 

[manly]

Is this a real system, or a homework assignment?

I ask because if it's not a real system, then you don't need a real database engine.

You can roll your own in-memory database with the programming language. I.e. use the language hashtable to store the username/password credentials.

So all that has to be done is when you start the web application, it reads in all the username/passwords from a flat text file.

Now if this is a real system that needs to be maintained, then you might want to use a real database.

However, if you abstract out the actual mechanism to fetch the user credentials into a "UserManager" module, that module can hide the actual database implementation used.

 

[kag]

yes, it's a real system that I dont have physical access to.... but one of my friend does and he can do some basic tasks, but nothing complicated....

I just want to know the easiest way to do it...... either server side or client side... but i want it to be somehow secure, not NSA encrypting but no easy way to hack your way around

if it's server side, it has to be php/mysql... anyway i'm gonna install php/mysql on a machine i have here to see if it needs a lot of configuration before you get it to work (to see if my friend could so it himself)