Re: Database using PHP+CSS+HTML UI: does it really work?

Aaron Heidel wrote: > > Hi all, > > At work, I'm helping to design an inventory system, and we're > thinking of using Oracle + PHP4 + CSS + HTML. I'm trying to determine > what kind of UI I can hope for when I limit myself to CSS forms and > PHP. Does anyone have, or know of any examples of this that inspire > hope? > > We want an interface accessible to all which compels us to use HTML. > CSS seems to promise to give us flexibility in designing the forms. > I'm looking for your thoughts on this, since I know many of you have > probably run across this before and are probably dealing with it now. > How do you all do your interfaces? What seems to work well, and what > seems to not work well? > > Thanks for your help, > Aaron Heidel > Hi Aaron, Well, I hate to continue to seem to be pushing a particular 'book', but... Web App Dev with PHP 4 provides an app on the CD that comes with the book that you might take a look at. It's a prog that provids a page for tips and tricks, keeping track of comments, ratings,etc, and provides report type pages, basic searching, and a few other things. It also uses PHPlib to control permissions in a configurable manner, so that when you divide the interface between user and admin tasks, you can subdivide the admin authz with various levels of permissions. This app uses PHPlib extensively. The use of Templates should be of interest if you haven't used them before. Even if you end up not using PHPlib, it's still a good source for ideas, and I believe is a base that many folks have used to jump start some projects. Just getting started myself on this stuff. Hope this helps. Mike D.