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Old 05-10-2012, 07:09 PM  
sarettah
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Originally Posted by mikesouth View Post
Years ago I worked for a company called Informix

They had a 4th generation language for application development called 4GL

basically it built your application off the underlying tables and views automatically, then you go in and tweak what was needed, add custom functionality etc.

is there a similar application that works with mysql and can generate default html/css for things like query by example, update table, add record etc based on the underlying table structure?

TIA
I do believe that codecharge will do that. I have not used it personally but one of the people I work with uses it all the time to slam out basic maintenance screens and so forth.

http://www.yessoftware.com/index2.php

Features

Visual IDE and Code Generator
Rapidly build web applications by generating robust, scalable programming code in ASP.NET (C#), ASP, PHP, Java Servlets, JSP, ColdFusion and Perl.

Database-to-Web Converter
Convert any database into a Web application in just a few minutes.


Web Reports, Calendars, Galleries, Charts, Ajax and more...
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Pre-built Solutions
Customize and enhance any of the examples included with CodeCharge:


Looks like they have a 20 day evaluation copy. http://www.yessoftware.com/download/...p?product_id=1

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