[wplug] Database front ends

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Jul 25 13:01:28 EDT 2005


Rob Knapp said:
> David Ostroske wrote:
>
>>Seriously, though, what do you all use for robust non-web front-end
>>interfaces to databases (corporate or otherwise)?
>>
> Mostly I use python + QT or wxPython.  I'm big on the whole portability
> thing, and I've found that those combinations work well.

May sound odd, but I've found PHP works great.

Newer versions of PHP have a GTK binding that makes GUI development
fairly easy, and the capability to to use PHP as a general-purpose
interpreted language has improved a lot over the last year.  PHP also
has built-in support for most popular databases.  (All I really care
about is PostgreSQL ...)

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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