Re: [PHPMyEdit-Discuss] Introduction

[Ondrej J. <ne...@po...>]

> Can anyone point me at projects similar to phpMyEdit and tell me why I
> should be using phpMyEdit and not anything else?

	I do not know a lot about similar projects, even in other than PHP
programming language. Maybe the phpLens, but AFAIK this is commercial (maybe
also free, I do not know) product with different approach than phpMyEdit.
See http://phplens.com/ for more info.

> There doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic on this mailing list? Why isn't
> this project far more popular if it does what it is supposed to do?

	I do not think that this project is not so popular. My 5.2 release
download stats say something else. Problem is, that this project had no
activity since February 2002. I have couple of patches prepared and in
August 2002 I became the project maintainer. Since that time I'm only fixing
hot issues, so there was no such time for better PR or propagation yet.

> Does phpMyEdit cope with complicated data types, enumerated data types
> such as reference datatypes?

	Sorry, can you be more descriptive? I do not understand this.
However, phpMyEdit can properly handle 'set' & 'enum' datatypes and do
simple 1:N table lookups. M:N table lookup are on the long term.

> Can I easily edit the code which phpMyEdit generates and still have those
> changes if I need to change the database schema?

	Yes. You can even write loader code from scratch without setup code
generator usage. I'm doing it this way.

> Open Source Software Companies please register here
> http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support/

	Is NGO supporting OSS also coonsidered as "Open Source Software
Company"? If so, why it should register there?

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