Re: [Hampshire] Moving to LAMP

2013-12-10 Thread Leo
Thank you all. I'll take a look at yii and cakephp. Also, Joseph, are the scripts similar to those here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/698839/how-to-extract-the-schema-of-an-access-mdb-database Regards, Leo On 03/12/13 09:43, Joseph Bennie wrote: database: I’ll push some simple vba

Re: [Hampshire] Moving to LAMP

2013-12-10 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I have had to do what you are trying to do in the past. Lessons learnt: 1) Do not keep Access as the front end and MYSQL as the backend. The MYSQL ODBC driver is bug prone and not fit for purpose. My recommendation would be: 1) Use one of the many simple tools available that import an .MDB

Re: [Hampshire] Moving to LAMP

2013-12-10 Thread Joseph Bennie
Sorry, Leo I got sucked into some stuff.. you know how it is This is what thou need https://github.com/jbennie/tbldefexport There are a few years of my assembled libraries etc in this upload and this is my first official publication of unique code. Whoop Whoop. You shouldn’t need visual

[Hampshire] Moving to LAMP

2013-12-02 Thread Leo
I was thinking of porting a fairly simple [1] Access database to a LAMP stack with a few web pages to do various updates, searches etc. I was just wondering, before I start looking, if there's something I could use that would provide some of this functionality for me off the shelf. (E.g. maybe

Re: [Hampshire] Moving to LAMP

2013-12-02 Thread Michael Pavling
Rails or some other crud-enabled framework would probably do the job quickly and easily. Though you may need a little assistance (whatever tool your choose) to get close to getting it implemented right first time. On 2 Dec 2013 23:20, Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote: I was thinking of porting a