Justin Courts - 2005-02-24

A lot of people have been in touch regarding how much this sounds like phpMyAdmin, so I thought I'd copy the detailed registration description I gave to SourceForge regarding this project.  Hopefully this will clear things up a bit: 

PHPDataAdmin gives the user a web interface to modify data within MySQL/PostgreSQL tables while allowing the database admin to give limitations to what data will be accepted for each field as well as locking out some fields altogether.

By setting up the configuration with field requirements of date/time, alphanumeric only, social security number, edittable, etc. the admin can place restrictions on what each field can contain and whether each field can be editted at all (think auto-incrementing ID fields).

The intended audience is database administrators who set up databases for content developers.  The DBA could set up the database structure and give access to this program to the content developers to populate the database with information which would then be used to develop a customer level application.

Example:  A online storefront for a record store.  If a new genre of music needs to be added to the website and database, the webadmin could use this program to insert into the genre table the new style without having to understand how a database works, and more specifically, how to construct the SQL command to insert this.