HTML data entry

Question

I have gotten a project on my desk. It involves updating the bios for a bunch of people, however, my boss does not want into a database (I think that would be the best solution but lets not go there). Although, he never said anything about flat files! :)

So, my solution would be to create a PHP page with some form elements with like "Education" and a text area for it, "Awards" and a textarea ect. and just turn the plaintext into a semblance of HTML.

I was wondering if anyone had any other better ideas?

The formats look similar to:

[center]
name
address[/center]

education: blah blah blah

Awards: blah blah

Edit 1: Eventually we will want people to be able to update their own bios.

Answer 1

It depends on what is going to happen with the data, I'd say. What is the purpose? Just displaying it on the very same web page? I.e. a very minimalistic wiki? There are several compact wiki implementations out there, without database also, perhaps one of the might suit your needs?

EDIT: Some Wikis compared