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Posted by Henk verhoeven on 04/27/07 22:37
Hi Fel,
Yeah, i could have made phpPeanuts in something that really only needs
some menu links and a database and it will guess together an entire app,
but in my experience that is not what end users want. So with the
current version you also need to create a class file for each table with
a few methods. The framework will do the rest. Ask you users to test it
and they will tell you that you are doing well but that they do need it
just to be a little bit different. Adding some more methods, and maybe
some specific classes will make them already a lot happier. Maybe that
will do, maybe they will ask more for severl times. In practice i
allways need these class files anyway, then why would i try to get rid
of them?
To say it differently: one fool can aks more questions then a thousend
wizards can answer. Or in terms of software: one user can think up more
(and other) improvements then even the most powerfull tool can support.
And the more powerfull the tool is, the harder it is to configure. The
only reasonable solution is to make the tool do what is commonly needed
and allow programmers to amend, specialise and override its funcions so
they can meet specific demands of specific users and their business.
This is what i did with phpPeanuts. You can download it for free.
Yes, it is meant for programmers to configure and build applications,
because that tends to be necessary to make customers happy. If you
really think you can forecast what your users will need i bet i can
extend phpPeanuts to become the tool that does it without a single line
of code. But foregive me that i am not convinced yet so you will have to
convince me first, for example by paying me for the work i will have to
do to realize *your* vision. I estimate that that will still be 95 % you
get for free and only 5 % you have to pay for. If that is still too much
for you, i suggest you learn meta-programming yourself.
Greetings,
Henk Verhoeven,
www.phpPeanuts.org.
fel schreef:
> does anybody know of any *web* query builder in PHP, something like
> the Access query builder, or similar, done in PHP or similar?
> I've looked for it trough the net, but nothing is colse to what I
> need.
>
> I'm not looking forward to build my own,I hardly have any time.
>
> all I find is programmer tools, I need something a USER (that has a
> good understanding of the database schema, and some SQL knowledge) can
> use, not a phplib.
>
>
> any help is greatly apreciated.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
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