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Great. Thanks for the replies. If anyone is interested I have used a jquery project called jqGrid and it works phenomenally. http://www.trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.htmlEasy as it gets to set up and start creating your own grids. Thanks for all the helpful info!

Great! I know Java requires external js files and to be installed on a user's PC. But I am unfamiliar with AJAX. Is it browser based? Does the user need anything? And does the server need something to run AJAX?

Of course. Thank you for the replies. One further question: I want to make editing the tables dynamic. No form submission necessary (otherwise, may as well continue to use Excel sheets.) Will I need to implement AJAX? So far I have seen AJAX used for fancy search fields like Google does, but none for on-the-fly editing of database tables. Edit: found this! http://demos.9lessons.info/table_edit/TableEdit.htm

Hi there. I work at a small company of 25 people and am looking to create an inventory system from the ground up. My question is which way to go: ASP, or PHP. This is a completely internal system for only our employees. It needs to be linked to a database that can be changed on the fly via a webpage. Basically, an excel sheet styled view access from a website hosted on our web server. The key features are the ability to change data on the fly, to track changes via timestamps (such as a user changing the location of an object), and that's really about it. We are just trying to upgrade from using shared Excel files to track our inventory. I'm pretty fluent in HTML and CSS and have enough time to learn PHP or ASP. I am wondering which is more powerful, easier, and will allow us to create such a system. Thank you.