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Crudder in action

It took a while.. a long while actually.. but I finally made a new release of Crudder. This new release 0.50 has a lot of new features and bugfixes, to name a few;

• New Field-type: HTML-editor
• New Field-type: File-upload
• New Field-type: Enum
• Export to CSV
• Adding records from the many-2-many-editor
• Bugfixes; language-support works better, datefield has been fixed, the many-2-many-editor should work better

Check out the DEMO or read more

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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

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