MYSQL Data Entry Form

[Justin Bennett]

cool thanks I'll check it out.

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



On 7/27/2005 5:34 PM, Robert Colbey wrote:

> A truly excellent opensource tool,  DBDesigner 4, is available at 
> http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/
>
> It is by far the most sophisticated opensource database tool I have seen.
> Not only can you create entity relationship diagrams and then have it 
> create the generating SQL, you can reverse-engineer the diagram from a 
> database connection. Once it understands the schema, there is a 
> plug-in which you can use to create some pretty nice PHP data entry 
> screens.
>
> Justin Bennett wrote:
>
>> ok. Thanks for the info, I have som stuff to play with, it probably 
>> all depends on what the user will be comfortable with. I can only 
>> show him the options... :)
>>
>> Justin Bennett
>> Network Administrator
>> Dynabrade, Inc.
>> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
>> Clarence, NY 14031
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/25/2005 4:20 PM, pirrone wrote:
>>
>>> Richard Hubbard wrote:
>>>
>>>> For things like Data Entry, you can always have  MS
>>>> Access link to MySQL tables. Then you hand the users
>>>> the MS Access MDB file and (provided you are pointing
>>>> to a machine they can get to) they can access the
>>>> files.
>>>>
>>>> With not much work you can also set up a custom
>>>> program in (gasp...arrgh...cough) Visual Basic.  The
>>>> Data Form wizard is almost painless.  (If you need any
>>>> extra work, though VB is a nightmare to code in).
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> OpenOffice (beta) does this extremely well.  Define a database 
>>> connection and have at it.  Nice way to sneak OOo into the 
>>> enterprise...
>>>
>>> Frank
>>
>>
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