Looking for a web form creating application for sqlite or mysql

[Chris G]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK, I'll definitely take a look then.  Looking at what's available "off
the shelf" for Ubuntu I see that Django purports to be RoR in Python. 
As I already know and like python I might got that way but I'll
investigate further first.

-- 
Chris Green