Jon Thanx for your advice. One point I did find "interesting" is your assumption that I am a newbie simply because I asked for a GUI. This certainly is a leap of logic, in fact I am no newbie, I have more than 15 years programming experience, I just prefer to spend my time writing good code, than converting databases. On the issue of PHP, personally I prefer to write servlets rather than be dependant on proprietry quasie-standards. But thanx for your tips anyway, it is appreciated. Chris On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:57:21 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
kinda of GUI interface I could use for designing the file layout, which kinda put me off.
You didn't say anything about that...
You should look at one of two tools (that I have personally used) for DBA, face and phpmyadmin. I don't know about the former, but the latter is available on freshmeat. The interface is up to you, but I would recommend something written in PHP.
Not that I know anything at all, but you have clearly exposed your newbie-ness by requesting a form designer. MS consumer/light-duty products like Access have form designers; Real Work (tm) databases do not. If a pretty form is what you're after, I'd recommend building the database with a real SQL engine (such as MySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL) and then attaching to it with the StarOffice database tools. StarOffice is in the [pay] series on the SuSE CD's.
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