Hi,
I'm looking for some suggestions on anything that might make it easier to do database based applications. I do a lot of things which pretty much amount to web based applications to edit/add/view/delete data in a database, and I'm trying to avoid writing these from scratch. Typically these are along the lines of things where users will add their data and admins or managers will view it and do various things with the data (for example, an application system where people come along and apply and their application is assigned to a committee member to evaluate and approve).
I'm looking for anything to help with this, most likely something that can help with form generation and db interaction but still let me implement other parts (say authenatication or authorization).
So far I've looked at ATK/URL] and [URL=http://sea-incorporated.com/plankton/]Plankton. ATK is neat, but the documentation is horrible. It's also an odd hybrid of a ready to go web application for managing a database, and a toolkit to facilitate working with databases. The problem is that the toolkit is designed to the needs of the ready to go web application, and that makes it hard to do some things differently. Plankton also looks neat, but requires a fair bit more coding and I'm not sure if it makes things that much easier...
There are all the code generators out there, which may help, but not exactly what I have in mind...
Any other things I should look at?
