Re: Developing a forms based web application - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Also worth a look is Code Charge Studio by Yes Software.
I have been using it for the past year on Postgres, PHP templates, and found it to be a very powerful  tool.
New version release in 1st Quarter 2003 will include editable grids(editable/updateable record sets), which are similar to what I see Access froms showing, possibly one way to reproduce Access functionality.

You can down load a 30day trial version.....Ver 2 Beta is avail for trial so you could look at the editable grid functionality.
Its a new product, documentation for ver 1 was a disastor, apparently major work happening in this area.

Also has a fast growing user group, checkout,
http://codechargers.net


paul butler wrote:

From:           	Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com>
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To:             	<stevemca@optushome.com.au>
Subject:        	Re: [NOVICE] Developing a forms based web application
Date sent:      	Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:49:32 +0200
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Completely forgot about cold fusion, haven't used it since 4.5, MX
is touted as a friendly j2ee front end. Definitely worth a look, easy
to get into but again, the level of client interactivity you get from an
access form/app will require a bit of work. 

Hi Steve !

If you are willing to spend some money on this, please have look at
MacroMedia's ( former Allaire ) ColdFusion for Linux.

cfml (ColdFusionMarkupLanguage) is easy to learn, fast and straight-forward,
yet powerful tool for even more complex web-applications. And there are
plenty of editors, for writing and generating the 'code' + html, like
ColdFusion Studio ( ok, you'll need one win-box for that ). One neat feature
is that cfml goes right into html like php but the syntax is much simpler.
And you can also use JavaScript where you like etc. The server even generates
form validation scripts for you.

I have used CF Pro Linux + RH + PgSQL for a year and half now, and when I
started I would not have dreamed of things I do with it now.

You can generate your forms 'on the fly' and populate them with data,
list-boxes, radio buttons, action buttons, almost anything goes, interacting
with mail servers and so on.

I've had no problems with the software, other than unexpetedly high traffic
and that was solved with tuning and raising the number of servers to start
and connections limits in CF + Apache + Pg. My databases are small and quite
simple ones, the biggest just under 20 000 rows, so I do not have experience
with really big dbs, I admit, but have a look anyway.

Best regards,

aarni
   

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