Looking for a web form creating application for sqlite or mysql
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 5 11:06:17 UTC 2011
On 5 October 2011 11:52, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:40:17AM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> > > 3) Use a db admin app (like PHPMyAdmin) with a user granted only
>> > > those permissions needed (just inserts?). Bit messy, but nice and
>> > > quick.
>> > >
>> > PHPMyAdmin (and it's close relatives) are aimed at managing the
>> > database and tables rather than entering data. I've already tried
>> > two or three of them and they're *horribly* clumsy to use for simply
>> > entering data into a table.
>>
>> Yeah, like I say, entering data straight into a db table isn't normally
>> what's wanted; generally there's a bunch of tedium to be done to the
>> data by the computer first.
>>
> Well MS Access (spit!) provides *exactly* what I need in two different
> ways, so some people seem to want it! :-)
>
> If you simply display the table in the tables tab in Access you can
> enter data row by row as I want.
>
> If you use the forms wizard to create a 'tabular' form it provides
> what I want, with the additional ability to do a bit of tuning.
>
> If I could use Access to create forms for use in a web page I could do
> what I want with very little effort.
That is only because you already know Access. If you already knew RoR
then again you could do it with very little effort. There are
features that will auto generate the forms for you as Access does.
Just define what you want in the table and it will do the rest.
Colin
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