I'm looking for a web frontend for end users of our database (server runs either MySQL or PostgreSQL) for organization-internal contacts and order handling.
I've searched the web for free/opensource database web frontends but only found admin tools (phpMyAdmin, ...) and frameworks that only show the tables but you cannot create apps (dadabik, vfront, xataface).
I want to create apps like in Access forms but apparently there is no such tool out there... As a backup, I would use openoffice Base with JDBC connection or progam the frontend in PHP manually.
An advantage would be user authentication (preferably LDAP).
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Take a look at OpenXava this might be what you are looking for.
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I've recently begun developing with NodeJS and ElectronJS to create some pretty nifty cross platform software. I want to take it a step further and integrate some database functionality.
While I'm aware that there are mysql packages available to install, I cringe at the idea that anybody can just unpack my asar.app file and see all of the connection details, including username, password, database name, table name, and other sensitive content that you really don't want to expose to people clever enough to break into your app's source code.
I've tried searching extensively on solutions to this problem, which I was surprised to find very little about. How do WhatsApp and Slack secure connections to their database if they were also built with ElectronJS?
Any and all resources are greatly appreciated. I basically want to be able to connect to a production server SQL database in an ElectronJS app without leaving some security backdoor to anybody who cracks the ASAR file.
Thank you!!
For this scenario, I suggest you to use a RESTful web service architecture. Basically you need 3 component, RESTful web back end, client application(your electron) and the database service( see the following image ; source:phppot.com) .For this I suggest you to use nodeJS backend and create a webservice using expressJS . You can define Restful (GET, POST,UPDATE, DELETE) API for each services.
For ex: To get some data from your db, you can send a GET request to the following path <yourdomain>:<port>/api/v1/getyoursomthin using your electron app. Your express app process the request and get the relevant data from the data from the database (Tutorial). So your app can get the respond from the server and display to the user. I will add link to some tutorials. You can find and learn more by google :)
Web: Build a simple app using Node JS and MySQL.
Express.js Tutorial: Build RESTful APIs with Node and Express
( source:phppot.com)
I'm working on an desktop app(hta) that need to access information from a database.
My challenge is that already I have the data I need in a sqlite database file. I just want to access this database file from my app then manipulate and display the results to the users.Is it possible to deploy an app like this? I'm not finding a way to access an existing database file through html5.(The sqlite database file will be created during the app installation.It is present in C:\filepath)
The solution will depend on your use case. I can see two of them.
1. Your application runs in disconnected mode (standalone)
HTML5 provides an API called Web SQL Database. It enables you to access an API for storage in the web browser. It's pretty much build around SQLite features. However, all the web browsers do not support it.
2. Your application can access a remote server
In the case you have a remote database, and your application is allowed to access it, I would suggest that you connect to your database by making requests to it. Of course, you will require to develop your own little API on the server side to access the database e.g. via XmlHttpRequest.
You can use javascript to access Web SQL databases. Remember, Web SQL is deprecated and only supported in Chrome and Safari. And Web SQL isn’t even actually part of the HTML5 specification.
For a starter's guide: HTML5 Doctor: Introduction to Web SQL Databases
I'm used to building PHP/Sql/Javascript/Css web apps, which is pretty easy using tools like jQuery and Twig.
However, once the database is configured and the app is running, there is a need for an administration panel for user to send content. I personnaly use PhpMyAdmin for database deployement, but this tool is to complexe and generic to be an acceptable interface for users to insert content into the database.
Developping a specific tool (ie administration interface) ends up being more complexe then developping the app itself.
Is there a framework which, given a simple description on the database structure would provide an elegant web interface for non expert administration (inserting / editing data into the database) ?
Have a look at Ruby on Rails.
If your database doesn't use long keys and your users are strictly windows users AND the database is accessible, you can also give MS Access a try with the mysql odbc driver.
Hint: Your question will be closed soon, because it attracts answers like my framwork is better than your framework :-)
Is it possible to do this?
I'm familiar with MySQL when it comes to webapps, but I'm learning how to create google chrome extension, and I'd like to somehow connect to my database from existing web app. I have created a form in the popup.html from google's example, and would like to send input values to a script to insert data into MySQL when user submits this data. How would I do that?
Right I'm in developing stage and uploading chrome extension is easily done without uploading to my server. So I'm just wondering how I can connect MySQL database if its not localhost?
Thanks!
I think what you don't want to give your chrome extension access to the database. That's a security nightmare of biblical proportions.
What you want to do is create a remote web-service that the extension can talk to, that then handles your database operations.
This can be as a PHP script that you call that returns a quick bit of JSON, or vastly more complex.
I have a client who wants a control panel for the app I am developing them. The control panel is a Mac OSX application that allows the user to submit files (excel docs and such) to my MySQL database. Those files are then checked by the iOS app I have created for them.
I have no idea how to do this. I have the MySQL database all set up, and I have looked everywhere for a solution. Any help is appreciated.
I wouldn't try to connect to your MySQL database directly from your cell phone. It's a bad design for several reasons. Instead build a API on the same server as the MySQL database. It doesn't matter if you do it in java, php, c# or anything else. You might even find some product or open source project that can do this automatically. I've listed some benefits of doing it this way
It makes testing easier. You can write a test framework against your API that doesn't rely on or is using a phone.
It makes development faster. You don't need to emulate or use a phone to develop and test your table design and queries.
It gives you compatibility. When you need to change your database (and you do) you can create new APIs that the new version of the app uses while and old version still out there can continue to use the old API (that you might have to modify to still provide the same functionallity)
It gives you flexibility. If your user base grows and you might need to have replication for reads or sharded databases you build that into the API instead of into the app which is just a better way to do it.
One option would be to use PHP to handle all the database interaction.
Host the scripts on the server and just have the apps call them and get the scripts to return some sort of parseable response (I'd go for JSON).
I have never found a suitable Object-C based connector for MySQL. At this point I would suggest using a C/C++ connector. There's lots of examples of how to configure the connector for both C and C++. The hard part will be all of the data passed from the MySQL code and the Object-C code will that it will have to be in C types.
EDIT: An Example