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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Rich Braun <richb-RBmg6HWzfGThzJAekONQAQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: > I've built a hopefully-clever database schema for a sys-admin tool, and > have > grown a bit tired of manually invoking insert/update commands in raw SQL. > Keeping track of the foreign-key indices, etc, manually is an error-prone > pain. > > So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form based on my > schema, and can't seem to find anything useful. There are a couple of > not-bad > ones that can read a single multi-column table and crank out an html form, > but > nothing that can go through 15 or 20 existing tables in a MySQL database > and > provide reasonably-simple layout tools to put the fields where I want them > on > 2 or 3 screens. > > One of the most sophisticated ones out there, believe it or not, is the > Base > tool in OpenOffice--but it's modeled after a 1993-vintage version of MS > Access > (no thanks!). Well, there /are/ more-sophisticated tools, but they tend to > be > proprietary and have a learning curve significantly longer than the amount > of > time I'm trying to save on manually generating some PHP forms. > > If you were building a database-driven website design today (one that looks > like, say, imdb.com, with the goal of providing browsable/updateable views > of, > say, DNS records), what framework would you start with? > > Secondarily, I want this thing to be scriptable, ideally with the same set > of > internal commands as the UI (to perform such operations as "insert new host > into domain"). I suspect that's too much to hope for in a single > off-the-shelf tool. > > BLU isn't quite the right place to ask this, where else should I turn? > > -rich > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > CakePHP.org -matt
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