On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:28:30PM +0000, Steve wrote:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:41:17PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
I'm looking for a tool a bit like the Forms Design part of Open Office (or MS Access for that matter) that will build web data input forms. I don't want a full-blown CMS or site design package, I just want to be able to build some simple data entry pages to load data into a database from the web (well, actually my intranet).
Is there anything out there which can do this?
... and I have looked quite hard, the best I've found so far is phpmyedit.
Oddly enough, this is next on my list of things to write.
You can help me out here...
What features would you like to see in such a form designer?
Well what *I* want is basically something like the forms designers in Access and/or OPen Office, plus I suppose the report designers as well.
I.e. I want the ability to place 'controls' on a page, define their position, content (link to database field), size, etc. preferably using a drag and drop interface.
I don't particularly want the whole database design ability in there, I'm quite happy to do that with other tools or simply directly using the mySql shell for example.
So I want a 'drawing area' and the ability to connect to one or more databases, select tables from the databases and enter, edit, display data from those database tables.
Once designed I'd like to be able to see the result as a 'stand alone' web page, i.e. no longer connected with the design framework.
Does that give you an idea of what I'm after?
The closest thing I have found to what I want is phpmyedit (see http://www.phpmyedit.org/).