Building Administration Screens

[kjs50]

Hello,

I was curious as to what people use to build front ends to manage your custom applications. For example, I have a custom publishing system that I have created in MS Access, but I edit directly in my tables.

I want to build some administration screens to keep it user friendly. In Access, the interfaces are really nice with their Forms, but I cannot later use the system remotely on my server.

If I use MySQL, then I need to build forms to edit the information. If I do this, are there any easy tools to help build the forms. I thought of phpMyAdmin, but the forms I need to build will be pretty customized.

Or do most people just create the php code from scratch.

Thanks.

[mincklerstraat]

Getting used to forms and everything that goes into them can take some time. And validation! Yuk. If you don't have much experience with forms yet, I'd just do my first few forms by scratch, if I were you, to get the gist of what needs to be there, what can go wrong, and how you like your forms best.

There are pre-made classes like QuickForm (http://pear.php.net > Browse Packages > either HTML or Forms) which will help you. This might not do the queries to stick the stuff in the db for you; if you really want that too, you could roll your own (what I ended up doing).