New to php and need advise, volunteer work for a fire dept?

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I'm trying to take a small html file that someone in a fire dept wrote to keep track of building inspections. They need the info stored to a file. It seems PHP is the best solution (not sure). Can I do this using only a single comp, if so how do I activate php.
This is small rural town fire dept with no budget. I'm sure their computer(s) are small and overloaded, so I am trying to do this by writing to 1 small file. Not sure if there is space for a database
Right now they have nothing, they edit an html file and print it and put it in file cabinet. Currently time consuming and not backed up. I can do it in C, C++ or C# but they want to use what they have started, I'm just volunteering.
If php can't be used to write to a file on a single computer I will try to persuade them into letting me provide a solution I am more familiar with.
 
Fire department building inspections are *very* important data. Can I suggest that, if you don't know what you're doing, you politely walk away. I know you mean well, but computer databases are not always as simple as you think. If you were to lose or corrupt the data, think of the problems it would cause.

The fact that you don't quite know whether PHP is the right choice, or how to install PHP, or that PHP works best on a server rather than a single PC, is very worrying. If you do run the system on a single PC, who will be responsible for checking the system and backing it up every night?
 
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