Thomas von Elling Skifter Eibner wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:57:59PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need a tool to interactively visualize DB tables from a web interface.
> > Ideally this tool would let me:
> >
> > - rename column headers,
> > - set cell alignments, widths, background colors,
> > - reorder columns,
> > - save all these visualisation settings in a DB,
> > - it would be written in perl (even better: mod_perl),
> >
> > Does such a beast exist? I am in the process of writing one, so I
> > thought I'd check first...
>
> Which Database are you thinking of? DBM files? SQL database? For SQL databases there
>is phpMyAdmin (for MySQL) and phpPgAdmin (Postgresql), but those are written in PHP.
>The functionality should be pretty easy to transfer if you look at php**Admin as an
>example. Maybe it could even be a whole lot better by allowing 'plugins' like the way
>DBI has database drivers..
>
> I would be able to spend some time help testing/developing on a project like this,
>so if you want help just email me.
>
This is something, a long time ago, that I tried to find time to begin
work on (with no real succes, alas.). I'm willing to spend some time
testing and developping on a project like this... The idea of having it
be "database-portable" could be really cool to do!
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