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A new free alternative to phpMyAdmin
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:37 pm
by Burrito
My partner and I have developed a new free alternative to phpMyAdmin. It has many cool new features such as manipulating data on the fly. Creating your tables by simply typing in your field names separated by carriage returns into a large text area and submitting. Copying all of your field names to your clipboard for easy pasting into your favorite HTML editor with the click of a button and many many more.
Right now it is only 100% compatible with IE 5.0 or greater and only available in the English language but it is an open source project so if you can help to make it more usable for everyone, please do.
DBAdmin+ can be found here:
http://www.dbadminplus.com
please check it out and let us know what you think by posting in here or sending us an email from the web site!
just tried it
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:22 pm
by fletch1024
Just implimented it on my server, very nice interface, pretty smooth. Are there any other features in the works?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:57 pm
by pinehead18
i find it interesting that fletch1024 only has one post and has just signed up. and posted a great review lol almost like they are working together if not the same person

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:04 pm
by Illusionist
lol, ya i was wondering that same thing as i read his post! But he actually signed up the 19th, so he may have jsut been scanning the forums lately looking to answers for his questions....
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:36 pm
by ilovetoast
I myself like the phrasing, particularly the word free. As if phpMyAdmin were not free....
Not to be a wet blanket, but what exactly does this offer that is not already in phpMyAdmin, that would cause me to consider a switch? An honest question, not a rhetorical one.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:41 pm
by John Cartwright
That's like saying why make linux when you got windows

Why not give'r a try, you never know you might love it.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:49 pm
by Ixplodestuff8
I checked it out, and It looks alright, but it offers nothing that phpmyadmin doesn't. I did like the ability to just change fields with one less click than it would take in phpmyadmin, however.
The main problem I have with it is that it only supports IE. and browser specific is a no-no in my book.
Also I think it does have some potential, but needs quite a bit of work, and provide at least somthing that phpmyadmin simply can't.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:21 pm
by ilovetoast
Phenom wrote:That's like saying why make linux when you got windows

Why not give'r a try, you never know you might love it.
Not exactly as phpMyAdmin is free, Open Source, working, feature-rich, and mature whereas Windows is not free, Closed Source, buggy, feature-poor and teething. I'm also not saying they shouldn't make it, I'm saying it appears they may be reinventing the wheel.
I'm not about to try something new just for the sake of trying it. That was the point I was trying to make. Is there some feature that this provides that makes it worth the effort? phpMyAdmin has the benefits I listed, so why should I bother with this? Seems to me the reviewer/developer/whomever thinks I'll love this could give me a concrete example of exactly what it is I would gain if I'm expected to go to the trouble of downloading and installing their app.
peace
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:23 pm
by ilovetoast
And if it needs "quite a bit of work" then thanks for playing. I'll sit this one out until they get things in order.
so that's what I get
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:48 pm
by Burrito
wow! wasn't expecting that.
I try to contribute something to the community and I get:
1) an accusation that I'm spamming the forum posing as someone else
2) a blow on my choice of words for the thread topic
3) an overall accosting that I shouldn't have wasted my time
I"m not trying to sell you something here. I was trying to help make DB administration easier for people. I did ask for one person's endorsement on this product because I think it IS feature rich and provides a lot that phpMyAdmin does not. I now regret doing so....(incedentally, I never got it)
I made this in the hopes that people would like the ease of use and help me develop it further. I'm not reinventing the wheel as I think (at least for my use), it's significantly improved over the aforementioned. I made it for myself, but just thought I'd share it because it has worked so well for me.
There's nothing in this for me other than satisfaction knowing that I might have helped someone out.
apparently I'd be better off focusing my attention elseware...
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:45 am
by vigge89
hey, come on guys, he's done a good job, stop complaining

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:47 am
by jigaruu
really cool job, and its too working fine,
Re: so that's what I get
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:57 am
by Roja
burrito wrote:I'm not reinventing the wheel as I think (at least for my use), it's significantly improved over the aforementioned.
Okay, I'm a blank slate. I'm ignoring everything else posted.
Please explain what in your software is "signifigantly improved" over phpmyadmin so that I'm tempted to use it.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:25 am
by Draco_03
Hey burrito..
Tell me, is there a chance you get a version That's compatible in other browsers ?
Like NS / Mozilla?
some comments from a creator
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:08 am
by twindagger
Hi, I helped to build this (actually I helped write it in ASP and then Burrito and I changed it to PHP) and I think a lot of people are confused about what our app offers over phpMyAdmin. It was written as a replacement for phpMyAdmin because we got tired of the way you had to add tables in phpMyAdmin. Please don't take this as me bashing phpMyAdmin, as it is a very full-featured app and one that does its job well. We just got tired of adding 30-40 column tables and having one of the columns not work, so that we would get an error screen and lose everything that we had just entered. So, the idea was to write an app that would use a hidden frame to post all actions rather than refreshing the main page. That way, if something goes wrong with the query, everything is not lost.
We then went beyond just the table-adding feature and made data manipulation, table structure manipulation, viewing table data much easier (at least for us). I won't list all of the features here, but you can find them here:
http://www.dbadminplus.com/documentation.php. The best way for you to see everything in action is to download it and try it.
Now, we only use IE here, and that's why it is IE specific. This
is an open source project, so if someone could help us make it cross-browser compatible that would be wonderful. I, personally, have had absolutely no experience with cross-browser coding, so that's the main reason that it doesn't work that way.