If you’re okay using a MS product that you can find cheap, Microsoft Access is pretty good. Lotsa tutorials and works well for small databases. Only drawback is it’s Windoze.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2023, at 08:31, Ali via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > >> >> That may be the rub. The installation and update process is... well, >> let's just say it >> gives me fits and I spent a non-trivial amount of time working out the >> procedure. Suffice >> it to say that I think quite poorly indeed of composer and yarn, and >> really don't think >> that there needs to be a software build process for a webapp written in >> PHP. > > .... > >> that. What I can >> speak to, however, is text mode. Loading my install in Lynx shows a >> somewhat bewildering >> version of the UI and the ever helpful message "Please activate >> Javascript to use all >> features," which I think pretty much says it all. I'm not able to do >> anything meaningful >> with it from Lynx, even after logging in. > > After looking at it some more and playing with the online model they have for > testing my excitement has waned. Add to this the fact that it doesn't let you > produce simple pages (a la your issues with Lynx) and I think my search > continues. The idea is what I am looking for but this particular execution > doesn't do it for me. I may have to buckle down and learn SQL after all... Or > some other DB language/program that has been around since the DOS days and is > still in use today.... > > -Ali >
