
   dbedit
   
What's new

     * Improved the documentation
     * Numerous bug fixes
       
                                    DBEDIT
                                       
   dbedit is a system for integrating developing web database
   applications. It is been developed and used by the [1]Globewide
   Network Academy whose web server is located at
   [2]http://admin.gnacademy.org/, which creates and edits database
   tables over the web.
   
   dbedit is unique among web database products because it abstracts the
   display of the information from the storage. In order to display a
   database, you create a straight HTML form, and then run a perl script
   on it which generates a CGI wrapper to the script. The advantage to
   this is that
     * You can add arbitrary perl code to your database applications
     * You can integrate your application with any database by writing a
       driver routine. Because display and storage are separated, you can
       then change the database implementation without rewriting your
       forms, or change your forms without rewriting your database.
       
   
   
   dbedit is distributed under the Library GNU Public License. It may be
   of interest to free software advocates, since is has the potential to
   allow for the generation of database applications for the various
   freely redistributable database systems out there.
   
   There is a demo of dbedit at
   [3]http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/gna-forms/dbedit-demo/edit.demo.
   
   Right now there is a driver to flat ASCII texts files using the file
   format for the Revolutionary Software's /rdb database system. Since
   the database parts of the code are modularized, it should be a very
   simple matter to interface the system with other text formats and
   database systems.
   
   There is also a half-finished driver for Postgres SQL, which I would
   greatly appreciative if someone out there in Netland can finish.
   
   There are also [4]technical design notes for dbedit.
   
System requirements

   dbedit runs on anything with perl5.
   
Source

   The current version of dbedit is 0.9.13 and is available as a
   [5]gzip'ed tar file from the URL
   [6]http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/HyperNews/get/tech/dbedit.html.
   
                                  NEED HELP?
                                       
   If you have any questions or comments about dbedit, please post them
   at o HyperNews group at
   [7]http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/HyperNews/get/tech/dbedit.html
   
Support

   There is an informal support and development mailing list
   dbedit@gnacademy.org, which you can subscribe to by e-mail
   majordomo@gnacademy.org with the message

subscribe dbedit

   
   
   Please post your patches, suggestions, and bug reports to that
   list!!!!
   
License

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
   Library Public License for more details.
