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Brand new Mini-Forum / reaction-widget

buTTon — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:16:11 +0000

Check out my brand new Prototype-based reaction-widget

Pending release of CRUDDER

buTTon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:48:06 +0000

I’m currently still optimizing and debugging a fresh release of Crudder, e.t.a of this release will be somewhere around the midst of March.
Changes:

Updates without any affected_rows will not trigger an error anymore, SQL-errors are still caught though
MultiLinked fields _should_ work better on MSIE, but you never know; IE sucks at being any kind of predictable (and all other things a browser should do).
Language-settings of the interface-texts actually work
new feat: thouroughCheck; checks whether a table has non-nullable fields and will make those fields mandatory
new feat: exporting data to CSV (currently the output with default-settings is suitable for openOffice)
new feat: Advanced filtering / Querybuilder

Announing Crudder

buTTon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:09:30 +0000

I needed a simple, easy to implement and lightweight library to allow a customer to Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) records in a database. Nothing special here; i could have made a custom PHP-script for this, takes 2 to 3 hours of tedious and annoying work. Instead I googled for something that could do this with minimal configuration, has a small footprint and uses ajax. I ran into fullblown frameworks, with a lot of configuration, or small projects, written spaghetti-style, lot of them a PIA to implement without having to search/replace for paths & includes.

So; I decided to create something like this myself, without a large PHP-Framework, completely written OOP-style (including the Javascript) and when finished it should be able to run with approx. 4 lines of code (not counting the table-definition).

The idea is quite simple; the UI is generated from javascript, no PHP here, configuration is done by one XML file, which contains both controlling-values (theme, language, connectionstring) and the table-definition (which fields to display, what kind of editor to use).

What will you need to run Crudder?
- A LAMP-server (prolly work on IIS-PHP too)
- PHP compiled with DOM and XSL-t-extensions

What 3rdparty code will be used:
- Prototype.js
- ADODB5 (the lite-version will prolly work, I will test this)
- TinyMCE

Check out crudder.net