dbiweb

Introduction

dbiweb is intended to assist web developers working with databases. Hopefully it can become a tool for database administrators as well. dbiweb provides a means of accessing database for development purposes. It is not a library for developers to use in programming; it is a tool to make development and testing easier.

Goals

• Easier database access
  Database access should be easier with dbiweb than it would be with the respective database access tool for your database software. The web-based nature of dbiweb allows gives developers flexibility as to their location and client software.
• Uniform database management system access
  dbiweb should be able to access many different database packages in the same way. There should be no difference between using dbiweb with Oracle and using it with mSQL, despite the very different approaches of these systems.
• Extended database features
  There are some things that developers might want to do that their RDBMS may not support. These may include report generation or looking up the unique values in a particular field.

It's good to have goals, but what do you actually have?

dbiweb is real! Anyone may download dbiweb from our project page on SourceForge. Due to the interpreted nature of Perl programs, the source code is all that you need. You might want to download the manual or the GPL license from the project page as well.

dbiweb has been tested with Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and mSQL. It has worked wonderfully with each of these systems. However, the tests performed are far from complete. Testing into other systems such as Sybase ASE, DB/2, and others are needed. Many of the features original intended for dbiweb are complete, but more work into the extended functionality of dbiweb is necessary.

Give it to me!

You may download dbiweb from our project page on SourceForge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbiweb/ . It's open source software under the GPL. For most people, that just means it's free to use and modify.

I'd like to help...

And we love being helped! There are a few different areas for developers to work on dbiweb. Naturally, Perl programmers are welcome to improve the actual code. Anyone working with databases is welcome to test dbiweb and tell us your experience. Particularly, database compatibility needs evaluation. As always, we welcome comments and suggestions.

Contact Information

Keith Trnka - tmka@users.sourceforge.net