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copied!<p>I've been a research programmer (MATLAB) for most of my programming career, writing things for only myself that can be run on my own computer. Now, I'd like to be able to have people submit a comma-delimited text file and get processed text files in return without having to use my computer directly (only 1 MATLAB installment).</p> <p>I'm thinking perhaps this can be done on my web server (XAMPP) over LAN and some programming language script that can be run on my server. This is what I'm thinking:</p> <ol> <li>have people create comma-delimited text files.</li> <li>have them go to a site I created on my localhost and submit it via a webpage forum.</li> <li>have the uploaded file processed in PHP (small files, < 100KB). This involves looking up a MySQL database as well.</li> <li>have people download the processed files somehow.</li> </ol> <p>Is this a sound system? By "sound" I mean, if you, the expert, wanted to set up this system, would this be the steps and tools you would use? I've been learning PHP lately, and it seems like I could do this using PHP, but I'm not sure if this is the right tool for the task. The whole thing seems ... a bit on-the-fly, as in you upload the file, and things are done in PHP memory (from what I've read) instead of the file being stored on my server and the server running a script using that file (is there a difference?!). I would be greatly thankful if you guys could chime in and give me some pointers on how to do this properly (general ideas, not asking for codes).</p>

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