Re: need advice for simple web development tools

Hi Michael,

If all you need is basic data manipulation, you probably could use existing
solutions like http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/doku.php or anything from
this list
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQL_GUI_Tools

Cheers

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Michael Moore <michaeljmoore(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:41 PM, David Binney <donkeysoft(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Michael,
>>
>> If you are new to development and would like a very simple setup, I would
>> suggest one of the php frameworks such as cakePHP or Symphony. With these
>> you should be able to scaffold up a very basic application within the hour,
>> which is the same for ROR and djangoproject(python).
>>
>> I have been developing for a long time and still always fall back to php
>> with a framework, for its sheer simplicity of setup, deployment, hosting
>> and scaling. CakePHP 3x has some good introduction tutorials as well.
>>
>> http://cakephp.org/
>>
>> Obviously this is personal opinion, but the fact that our interns can
>> learn, develop and push out 'heavily" used app apps in a very short
>> timeframe, makes me think its not too bad ;).
>>
>> --
>> Steve also raises a good point, that if you are just setting up websites
>> then Wordpress/Durupal or Joomla which could be used with no coding
>> required, and more flexibility on the client end.
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 at 08:59 Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/28/2016 03:51 PM, Michael Moore wrote:
>>> > I want to create some web page screens with postgres as the db. It is
>>> > just for simple prototyping. I don't need scalability or high
>>> > performance. I just want the simplest possible environment to toss up
>>> > some quick web pages with postgres data. Hopefully no app server or
>>> > middle tier.
>>> > What should I be looking at?
>>>
>>> Since you are using a database I am assuming you want the pages to be at
>>> least somewhat dynamic e.g. respond to user input. If this is the case
>>> that would tend to point to some sort of middle tier to negotiate
>>> between the Web server and the database.
>>>
>>> So some questions:
>>>
>>> 1) What exactly are you trying to achieve in terms of interaction
>>> between the user and the data?
>>>
>>> 2) What language(s) do you want to work in?
>>>
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adrian Klaver
>>> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>>>
>>>
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>> Cheers David Binney
>>
>
> Basically I just wanted to some basic Add Change Inquire Delete
> functionality. I've been developing software for about 40 years. First job
> was Fortran. So, I have a bit of experience but most of it not relevant at
> this point. Anyway I'm not averse to learning new technologies. I'm going
> to look into cakePHP.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> Mike
>