On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:10:22PM +1100, Steven Heimann wrote: > One new database that I thought I would try my first experiment with is > a simple document store. It seems to work nicely with mysql. This > database only needs fairly simple add, edit & search function and I > thought there are probably some automated system to take an existing > mysql structure and create some PHP web forms to allow these functions. > Despite a fair bit of time with Google I haven't found what I am looking > for.
It's not PHP, but Ruby on Rails has a simple scaffolding generator for tables. It's pretty (read: amazingly) neat stuff. > Although they seem aimed at a slightly different and much larger and > more complex problem there seems to be about a million competing Content > Management Systems that may or may not do what I need. However, the > learning curve for these might be larger than just learning more PHP and > writing the system from scratch. Not a hope in hell. I could learn Plone in less time than it'd take to write a fairly simple CMS, and Plone is a huge, ugly beast of a system. > If someone could recommend a system that could help me I would > appreciate it. If one of these CMS is the way to go recommendations > from a happy user of one or other of these would be great. I can see at > the moment I could spend weeks just trying to decide how best to > approach the problem. Perhaps there are some templates of existing > systems out there but I haven't been able to find them. The problem with recommendations is that different CMSes suit different situations -- do you need management of rich multimedia, or just HTML/images/PDFs? Do you need strong content approval processes? How technically inclined are your users? What performance/scalability needs do you have? There was a roundup of member-recommended CMSes on the OSIA discuss mailing list in the last week or two which would probably be useful to you. http://www.osia.net.au/ and follow the links to the list archives. - Matt -- I'm seriously considering getting one of those bright-orange prison overalls and stencilling PASSENGER on the back. Along with the paper slippers, I ought to be able to walk right through security. Not. -- Brian Kantor, in the Monastery -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
