Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> writes:
> At 6:55 PM -0500 12/3/01, Vsevolod Ilyushchenko wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Is anyone aware of a Linux product equivalent to ASP.NET from MS? Its most
> >attractive feature is the GUI construction of Web forms and the automatic
> >connection of their fields to a database. Since I am getting sick and tired
> >of writing over and over the code to process user input and store it in the
> >database, a similar product would be a huge help. (PHPLens does something
>
> The combo of Embperl and DBIx::Recordset will come pretty close to
> automating the fetch and store of database records into a form
> (perhaps four or five lines of embedded Perl for each). Designing
> the form is not there though.
I did an auto-form generator-from-schema thing once.
Too many exceptions and meta-data involved to actually make it really
worthwhile.
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