On Friday 13 January 2006 03:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am migrating some Lotus Domino databases to LAMP. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Thank you and regards Steven I found "Build your own Database Driven Website" Kevin Yank, http://www.sitepoint.com to be a very through but gentle intro, it has proved invaluable to me. You can go from simple php/mysql to a complete CMS. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
