Hey everyone :-)

This is my first post to the list and I would like to thank everyone for
this great resource. I'm relatively new to mySQL and a novice at PHP, but
here is a description of what I am trying to do. My objective is to create
a database that will provide variables for a series of forms. These
variables would be conditional based on a few series of simple drop down
menu based questions. 

Here is a particular sequence;

1st)" What era of military is this roster for?"
        a) Modern
        b) WWI/WWII 

Based on a)'s choice they would get this list of variables to choose from;

            Spanish Marines: 
            Japanese Military:
            US Airforce: 
            US Army: 
            US Marines: 
            US Navy: 

Based on b)'s choice they would get this list of variables to choose from;

            WW2 British Army: 
            WW2 G-Kreigsmarine: 
            WW2 G-Luftwaffe: 
            WW2 G-Waffen-SS: 
            WW2 G-Wehrmacht: 
            WW2 Red Army AirForce: 
            WW2 Royal Air Force: 
            WW2 Royal Navy: 
            WW2 US Army AirForce: 
            WW2 US Army: 
            WW2 US Navy: 

Now for any of these choices I have a list of associated ranks which
depending on which choice is made could be as little as 20 but as many as
30 variables to choose from. For example, here is a list of equal world
ranks based on the U.S. equivalent of (E-1) or standard "enlisted" men.

ENLISTED
      PRIVATES (E-1)
      Private

Spanish Marines:                Soldado
Japanese Military:              Nitto Hei
US Airforce:                    Airman Basic
US Army:                        Private (E-1)
US Marines:                     Private
US Navy:                        Seaman Recruit
WW2 British Army:               Private or Sapper
WW2 G-Kreigsmarine:             Matrosengefrieter
WW2 G-Luftwaffe:                Flieger or Gefrieter
WW2 G-Waffen-SS:                SS-Schutze
WW2 G-Wehrmacht:                Schutze (after Nov. 1942: Grenadier)
WW2 Red Army AirForce:  Krasnoarmeyets
WW2 Royal Air Force:            Aircraftsman 2nd Class
WW2 Royal Navy:                 Ordinary Seaman
WW2 US Army AirForce:   Private
WW2 US Army:                    Private
WW2 US Navy:            Seaman Recruit 

So, as you can see that there is a lot of menu driven choices and this is
only one tier of ranks of 25 or 30 that must be created. Plus I have an
image directory with all the associated ribbons for each of these ranks on
each level. For that though I will refer to the directory where the image
resides rather then dragging the speed of the DB down to call on the
images. Having never created a database of this size I am looking for some
guidance/help on what might be a way to best approach or someway to get the
info in by batching a CSV file or something like that.


ENLISTED
      PRIVATES (E-1)
      Private
            Spanish Marines: Soldado
            Japanese Military: Nitto Hei
            US Airforce: Airman Basic
            US Army: Private (E-1)
            US Marines: Private
            US Navy: Seaman Recruit
            WW2 British Army: Private or Sapper
            WW2 G-Kreigsmarine: Matrosengefrieter
            WW2 G-Luftwaffe: Flieger or Gefrieter
            WW2 G-Waffen-SS: SS-Schutze
            WW2 G-Wehrmacht: Schutze (after Nov. 1942: Grenadier)
            WW2 Red Army AirForce: Krasnoarmeyets
            WW2 Royal Air Force: Aircraftsman 2nd Class
            WW2 Royal Navy: Ordinary Seaman
            WW2 US Army AirForce: Private
            WW2 US Army: Private
            WW2 US Navy: Seaman Recruit

I have a few resellers accounts and would be willing trade some
web-space/bandwidth for some direct help on this. Please email me direct if
can give some time to this.

Thanks


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