> There are many free GUI's built for database access (many of them > web-based using php); but most of them focus on database > administration.
I think the reason for that is that database administration is easier to parameterize. There are so many different things that an application might (or should) do that writing a generalized application development tool is a huge task. Making it reasonably secure, multi-user aware and web-based adds extra levels of challenges. I've been playing around with writing a table-driven web-based database query/edit tool for the last year and a half. It works fairly well for some in-house applications and at one of my clients. Once I get through the major portion of the job for this client (around the end of April, I hope), I'm hoping to have time to look at what it would take to turn this into a project that can be released into the open source community. While it was written (in PHP) with PostgreSQL in mind, I've already used it with limited sucess with other database back ends, specifically MySQL and Oracle. I think it should be possible to make it work with any database for which there is a PEAR implementation in PHP. -- Mike Nolan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
