Unfortunately I would need direct access to mySQL. I can do that on my own machine but the database I want to use is on a server where I would need to connect locally. Using PHP I can connect to the local database because the PHP files are processed on the same server if you see what I mean(the same reason you need to use phpMyAdmin to manage remote databases).

I was thinking of writing some PHP code to fetch data and supplying parameters through the URL. But I think it will be easier to just FTP small text files for each user.

Thanks for your help