[vox-tech] Seeking Suggestions for Form Designer

[Alex Mandel]

On 01/27/2013 09:43 AM, Chris Jenks wrote:
> 
>    Hello,
> 
>    As a mostly self-taught programmer, I've noticed myself creating 
> web applications over the years which seem similar enough that a tool may 
> exist to create them with less redundant effort. Things like timesheets, 
> equipment inventories, shopping directories and publication summaries all 
> have in common the routine of create the database, make a form to add, 
> edit and delete from the database, make reports of the database and a way 
> to export data. There tend to be a few special requirements per 
> application which keep them from being identical aside from field names 
> and table relationships.
>    I looked into moodle a while ago, which was originally meant to allow 
> the design of custom web forums. Can anyone point me toward anything more 
> promising then moodle for inventory type applications?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>      Chris


Depends on how you want to work. Many Content Management Systems or
Frameworks would make this pretty easy.

Here's some of the ways I've done it and still do it:
Plone with PloneFormGen module (No Coding, all through the web).
Django with it's built in Generic Views.
Drupal with custom object type.

You get pretty simple CRUD out of those, and most of them allow you to
interject extra js to make them more magical if you need with JQuery,
Ext or other libs (AJAX style forms).

Enjoy,
Alex