WWWdb is a front-end to database-tables, which allows you to browse them or to insert, update and delete data. You have the possibility to layout your input-forms, so they look nice and the users are satisfied with them. To protect your data from being inconsistent you can plug in Perl-Scripts for checking and changing input-fields in a very flexible way.
You can create a screen-layout with using a configuration file. The possibilities are shown on this site. The file can hold the following information:
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Database-Connection * |
Here you describe the connection to the database (Driver, User, etc). |
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Database-Table * |
What table to work with, and which fields to query or update. |
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State-Information |
You can disable or add your own Submit-buttons and create a state-flow for this database-table. |
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Global page-layout |
Background-color or the confirmation of insert, update, delete |
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Field-layout ... |
For every field or label you can choose which attributes you want to set, or what type of input-field you want. |
* This Entries must be done
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Date |
Version |
Comments |
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1999/10/07 |
0.0.1 |
First announcement |
WWWdb has been released under the GNU-License.
Note that this software and documentation is being provided "as-is" with no warranty either explicit or implied. TWC is not responsible for any damages incurred from the use of this product. Again, please read the GNU-license.
WWWdb currently is configured to run on my platform with SuSE-Linux 6.2. It requires the installation of the following packages:
mod_perl
some perl-modules
database (Oracle and postgresql is yet implemented, but via the Perl-DBI-modules other databases should be no problem)
One picture says more than thousand words. A Demo more than a million. Here it is!
WWWdb can be downloaded at http://linux.twc.de/WWWdb/WWWdb-0.0.1.tgz
WWWdb is in a early alpha state. This means, that tons of ideas wait to be implemented, not that the software isn't stable. Of course, there are some bugs in, but you should run it stable on your system, as we do. Because of the alpha state, bigger changes in the config-file could be expected.
If you want to contribute to WWWdb with your ideas, patches etc. you're welcome to contact the author or visit our bugtracker.