Online loan system

[David J Patrick]

Teddy Mills wrote:

>I was thinking of making a voluntary automated online loan system, using
>MySQL database, and PHP.
>No money or curreny involved, and all liability, demand/supply, transfer of
>items and recovery is always with the owner of the item
>Just a group of people, say in a building, loan trivial items.
>(rakes,lawnmowers,cup of flour, movies)
>Kinda just like meetup.com., but with items, not people.
>
>Im not sure what category of PHP script I would be looking for.
>Maybe a library or loan system. Not really a classified ad system, because
>items would continually recycle.
>
>People would add/remove items to the database themselves.
>Any ideas? Before I write my own system?
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I LIKE that idea, Teddy !
I'd use it.
Lenders and borrowers could acumulate stats an' all, like ebay.
There would be administrative issues, though.
If it started to get out of hand, maybe you could work in a small fee
and find someone who wanted to run it full time.



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