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I'd like to suggest that the actual data access portion of your project is going to take only a small portion of the development time. (I'm a beginner to scripting who was lucky to have lots of data scripts to build on but no InDesign script base.)

All of your data preparation could be done in PHP or probably Apple Script (if it supports ODBC queries). If you did it in PHP you might be writing your in-use data out into a text file so that you can select it from Apple Script - after that you are just moving data chunks to InDesign. (I'd guess XLM text files are similar you are just instructing InDesign which data chunk to plug into an area.)

For me at least it is more time consuming to layout that data once you get to InDesign. See Brian Carter's current brainstorm: Brian C. Carter "Catalog Design - Brainstorming / Food For Thought" 4/17/03 7:22am </cgi-bin/webx?13@@.1de8c46d> for an example of how visualizing the process to automate the layout gets difficult.
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