Hmm... . populating a database table is much simpler (especially if you want the user's to input the data themselves).
Simply create a form with the fields you want, install ABVFP and process the form with it. Whenever a user submits the form, the data wil be automatically stored in the database. Not only, but you don't even have to create the table, ABVFP wil do it automatically for you.

The search part is an entirely different issue. If the search is only for you, you can do it either through phpMyAdmin, or through a dedicated script. if the search is intended for displaying the search results in a web page in your site, you need a script that will perform the search and display the results in a table, separated in pages if they are too many to display in a single page

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