Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-21 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: Matt Shields suggested: CakePHP.org Got it, thanks! Sometimes a one-word response is all I need. Thanks for the push in the right direction, this one is /much/ easier to use and more flexible than all the others I

Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Rich Braun
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

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form based on my schema, and can't seem to find anything useful. If you were building a database-driven website design today That's what I do for a living. (one

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form based on my schema, and can't seem to find anything useful. 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

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Rich Braun
Tom Metro suggested: Have you looked at Kexi (http://www.kexi-project.org/)? It's described as Microsoft Access for Linux. I'll have to read that one; at first glance it does look like Koffice's answer to OpenOffice Base, both of which are answers to MS Access. The Kexi site even references