ANNOUNCE: WWWdb - editing databases over the Web
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WHAT IS WWWdb?
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   A flexible web-enabled frontend and application-server for
   different databases ...
   that is WWWdb.

   WWWdb is a developing-tool for web-applications, that are based
   on a SQL database. You can browse and modify any data stored in
   database-tables and display them in a format, you like. If you
   own a Palm-PDA, you can downlaod the selected data directly to
   your device. To check, that the data-integrity is kept, you can
   plug in Perl-scripts, that guarantee that only correct data is
   inserted in your database.

   WWWdb handles WWW-connections as sessions and you can login and
   setup your own session. Everytime you come back, your last
   session can be continued. Because it is password-protected, no
   cookies are needed.

   To link the single WWWdb-applications together, a navigation
   hierarchy connects the applications, as well as the possibility
   to search them by predefined words, using a search-engine. With
   an applications-wizard you can create and modify
   WWWdb-applications over the web on the fly. WWWdb is very easy to
   install.

   BTW: Thw wwwdb.org site is completely designed and executed with
   and under WWWdb.

   At the moment, four databases PostgreSQL , Oracle, InterBase,
   MySQL and ODBC are supported.

   WWWdb is also internationalized! You can set the language for
   every Session-Id separateley.

   NEW in the actual Version (0.8.2):
     * Documentation for the config-file entries
     * An Installer, which installs WWWdb completely in about five
       minutes
     * Generation of PDF-files from the search results of a data
       query
     * Some bugfixes


DOWNLOAD:
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WWWdb is distributed as a gzipped tar-ball.

It includes all sources, of the software as well as the configuration-files
and the corresponding perl-plugins. The .po-Files for internationalisation
are also included.

The contents of the database are kept in database-description-files and
the corresponding export-/import-files, ready for importing in one of the
supported databases.

You can download the actual version(0.8.2) of WWWdb at:
http://download.sourceforge.net/wwwdb/WWWdb-0.8.2.tar.gz

If you need the additional perl-modules, WWWdb does rely on, you can
find them at http://download.sourceforge.net/wwwdb/WWWdb-contrib-0.8.2.tar.gz. 
I have separated them, because I dont to waste internet-bandwidth.

Of course, you can find these modules at the usual CPAN -archives.

Have fun!

Klaus








