vladb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I'm sorry to disturb you from your daily chores (hacking etc), but could anyone tell me where I could download a free web script written in Perl that would allow me to browse/view/edit my MS Access database(I'm soon to switch to a different database... this is something I play with for testing on my WinOS box)?

I've been looking around the web but couldn't find quite what I want. Say, there's a proprietary web script for interacting with a MySQL database via a nice web interface. I guess it's a standard script that comes with many installations of MySQL databases.. I'm wondering if any of the monks here had dealt with anything that would fit what I'm looking for?

An ideal script would allow me to view/edit tables from my MS Access database (or any other SQL database) including performing standard actions such as adding new records, importing CSV files etc.

Thank you! ;-)

"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith

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Re: Any good Database web interface?
by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 06, 2002 at 09:16 UTC
    If you've found something useful, you should be able to use DBI to access the data. You could also look at this node.

    Or, you could have tried a search on this site under 'DBI' or 'MS Access'. :)

    --t. alex

    "Excellent. Release the hounds." -- Monty Burns.

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      Oh.. i didn't mean that.

      What i need is a stand-alone web application that serves as an interface to a number of popular databases. Something as broad as what default installation of MySQL database gives. Unfortunately, I don't think that what a web app that I once had to work with (didn't have access to the scripts though =/..) was a commercial product, that is not a part of some GNU project. That's why I was also wondering if any monk would know where I could get a tool like that.

      cheers, vladb

      "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith
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        I would try doing a search here at www.freshmeat.net. They probably have a project that you are looking for. Also, www.sourceforge.net is another good place to look.
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        Sorry, I don't know such a script for Access.

        But for MySQL there ist phpMyAdmin. Okay, it is not written in Perl. But it is worth a look. The URL is http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net
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