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I looking at developing a database that contains student information like contact information as well as class schedule, report cards and transcripts. I want the database to link to another database that contains teacher information like classes taught, and class roster (obviously the class roster is going to be generated from the student infomation database), and similary the report cards be linked to the teacher's class roster. There are some other functionality I want the database to have.

My issue is, what good is a database if there is no way to easily add entries, update infor and generate reports from the information. So, I don't know how to go about interfacing with the database. What I am leaning to is MySQL and interfacing it with web pages using PHP. The problem is using web pages may not be feasable because of security issues. Is there another way, maybe an easier way, to creat a database and interface with it?

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