This is a three tier framework where you can use any back end you want.
They currently support the major ones: MySQL, SQLite, PostGreSQL,
MSSql to name the ones I can think of.
http://dabodev.com/wiki/FrontPage
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Jeff
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Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been trying to tackle a certain data-entry and processing problem
for quite some time, and I was wondering if someone could offer advice
on the path I should take. Whatever the answer, I know I have a great
deal of study ahead of me, but I was hoping to at least narrow the field.
My specific use-case involves an attempt to create a web-based phone
contacts system that allows users to associate a single contact with one
or more business entities (or phone numbers or relatives, etc.). On the
backend database, I know this requires the use of a linking table and a
many-to-many relationship between tables for "individuals" and "businesses."
The front end is where I'm running aground.
Ideally, I'd like to have a data entry/edit form that lets the
client-side user associate multiple entities with a contact before
submitting the form to the server.
So if the user enters "John Smith" as a contact, they can initially
associate him with "ABC Company".
If John Smith also serves on the board of directors for XYZ Foundation,
I'd like to let the user click an Add button to also associate John
Smith with the foundation. All of this should take place before the form
is submitted back to the server.
A simple javascript implementation of the add/remove functionality I'm
speaking of can be found at
http://www.dustindiaz.com/add-remove-elements-reprise.
The part I'm getting lost on is how to take those dynamic user-generated
values and get at them on the server side using python, with the
end-goal of parsing and adding the values to the appropriate database
tables (I expect I'll also have to do plenty of validation and checking
for possible duplicates, but I'm waving my hand at those issues for the
moment).
So I was hoping someone could explain how to accomplish this seeming
hand-off from client-side javascript to server-side python.
Should I be accessing the DOM? And if so, should I be parsing URLs or
using xml (e.g. python's xml.dom API or Frederick Lundh's ElementTree
module)?
I suspect that I may be misusing/confusing the terminology here, so
please feel free to point out any mistakes. Or perhaps I'm
over-complicating the issue and there's a simpler solution to what I'm
trying to accomplish.
If someone could suggest a conceptual approach to the problem, and even
point to some good readings that tie these elements together for the
stated purpose, I'd be greatly indebted.
Regards,
Serdar T.
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