Re: Automated form generation?

"Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote in message news:4A2D8DF0.4040602@mckenzies.net... > Skip Evans wrote: >> Hey guys & gals & all ships at sea, >> >> We've been approached by a central office of a relatively large >> religious denomination that collects data from their member churches in >> the form of an 11 page questionnaire with a diverse set of questions >> ranging from multiple choice, essay type, to financial statements. >> >> It's currently all hand filled out and then hand typed in to a MS Access >> database (shudder...). >> >> They want to webify it so I'm wondering if anyone has any >> recommendations on PHP based form generation tools that would speed up >> the process of form creation and perhaps even the inserts into MySQL. >> >> So far I'm looking at phpFormGenerator here >> >> http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/ >> >> But it says "beta" which gives me some small pause, and I'm actively >> browsing for others. >> >> Any experience or advice others have here would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Any CMS out there that might have a tool for this that would be quick to >> install and get up and going? Codeigniter have one, any others??? >> >> Much thanks, >> >> Skip > > My first thought was CakePHP. Setup your database and run the cake bake > script and you will get all the forms, create, retrieve, update and > delete, as well as the PHP models and controllers to do it. Then you > just start customizing. You can do the same thing with Radicore (http://www.radicore.org) - build your database, import it into the data dictionary, export it to create the basic List/Search/Create/Read/Update/Delete transactions. All withut writing a single line of HTML, SQL or even PHP. You can customise these scripts to your heart's content As an added bonus you get a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) system, Audit Logging, Workflow, Single or Two Factor Authentication for user logons, PDF forms generation, and a whole host of other goodies. -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com