Need a new language

[agnivohneb]

So I have made a program for our school and it turns out that the programing language that I was using was not allowed by the school.

I created a program that tracks students signing in and out of Academic Resources. Student would come in to the room, enter their name and the program timestamps the signin. On the way out they click their name and the program timestamps the signout. But I was using XAMPP Lite because I wrote the program in PHP and used the MySQL database to store the information and the school dose not like any type of server even if the computer is not connected to any network. Kinda sucks as I had it all finished and just needed to get approval by the LAN tech.

In short I am thinking of redoing it in a different language but I don't know what one. I would like one that can handle database information easily and will allow me to search fast. Also something easy to learn because I do not know that many languages. I am mostly a web developer so you can see why I originaly decided to use PHP and MySQL.

Thanks in advanced

UPDATE: I had writen a blog about it a while ago here: http://benhovinga.blogspot.com/2009/02/illegal-learning.html

[DemonWasp]

If you're running a database, then by definition you're running a server - the database server. Ask the LAN tech guy in advance whether that's allowed - if it isn't, then you don't get to use a database (insert sad face here).

If their prohibition is just against HTTP servers, then I guess you get to write your application to use a desktop UI.

[wtd]

Use Ruby and SQLite?

[agnivohneb]

So I am trying to figure out a way I could setup some sort of database with read/write/mod/seek and records.

wtd
is it easy to learn?
for someone who only know Turing, PHP, and HTML (even tho its not a language - http://compsci.ca/blog/if-a-programming-language-was-a-boat/).

DemonWasp
they do not like any server.

[wtd]

Yes.

[btiffin]

Old guy grins
OpenCOBOL and ISAM. OC uses Berkeley Database or Trevor van Bremen's vbisam for indexed, relative and sequential record CRUD.

You may also want to check out the ubiquitous (to nixy worlds at least) old-school dbm and gdbm library calls.

And a ditto of the young but venerable wtd; yes. Ruby and SQLite are not that hard to learn, but like all great things, require effort to master.

Cheers