An article in linux.com caught my attention: Create a Web-based interface for MySQL databases in a flash with phpMyEdit:

To simplify creating PHP-based front ends, try phpMyEdit, an ingenious piece of software that can generate a functional Web interface in a matter of minutes — no PHP programming skills required.

phpMyEdit was my very first venture into the world of open-source coding back in October 2000. It was a classic example of “scratching an itch” – I’d discovered php and had immediately felt a need for a simple code generator – something to point at a MySQL table and get out a simple ACD (Add, Change, Delete) screen. So that’s how phpMyEdit started, and the fact that other people also found it valuable, took over the maintenance of it, and now even offer commercial services around it, proves just how itchy a subject it must have been.

However, looking back even further in my career, I can remember doing similar coding for adabas tables using natural, and I’m sure I have something similar in dBase-II on a 5¼” disk somewhere … so maybe it’s not surprising that phpMyEdit was born. However, the earlier code has died, whereas phpMyEdit lives on. Is there life (for software) after death (of interest by the author)? yes, if it’s open-source!

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