Hi Mike, On 2009-05-20 15:31, mike wrote: > Hi all - I just started programming a mysql database and associated > scripts to load it, and web pages in php to perform canned queries and > display the contents of the database. Eventually, I would like users > to be able to edit the contents of the database as well. I recently > ran across semantic forms and I started to wonder whether it might be > better for the job than a custom programmed db and web interface.
You didn't mention Semantic MediaWiki - do you know what it can do? I'm quite sure you could save a lot of work by using MediaWiki with the Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms extensions. You would model all your data in the form of Wiki categories (can be seen as SQL tables, if you want), pages (rows) and properties (columns), and get them out again with semantic queries (again, on Wiki pages, see [1]). Everything would be in the Wiki's database. You also wouldn't have to create your own "user interface", it comes in the package. User management, multi-user capabilities, version history of every change, etc., too. > Now > I am thinking of developing the forms to display and edit my data and > then somehow populate the wiki with my data. Then I would like to be > able to extract the data from the wiki into flat files, etc. Is there > some way to import and export data to mediawiki+semantic forms from > flat files? I think that wouldn't be much less work than just writing the forms in plain HTML, submitting them to PHP scripts that do the database operations. I really recommend to consider having your data stored in the Wiki in semantic properties - and use Semantic Forms as an easy way to fill/edit the Wiki. Patrick. [1]: http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to semantic-forms@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to semantic-forms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
