PhpXDb

A PHP Database API with XML/dbase/SQL implementations. Generic database manager provides centralised admin, and template class with examples for easy creation of database GUIs. The XML version does not require DOM and is built upon the Php.XPath class.

Tutorials:

• Why and how to use PhpXDb - how to go about using these scripts in your website.

The database implementations:

• PhpXmlDb Documentation - XML implementation of the API
• PhpDbaseDb Documentation - Dbase implementation of the API
• PhpPgDb Documentation - PostGreSQL implementation of the API
• GenericDb Documentation - Wrapper round the PhpXDb implementations that auto detect the database type from the database filename, and ease the use where all references are to the same table/view

Supporting scripts:

• Web application design
  • Page class - Provides event driven web application page design.
  • Gui Template class - Derived from the Page class, provides a template for web application pages that are database guis.
• Database Manager - Generic database manager for management of databases created by the API.
• Gui Examples
  • Carols Database - Simple example of the Gui Template class in action
  • Database Manager - Further customised examples of the Gui Template class
• Validation Tests - Unit test to prove the integrity of the implementation
• Database Utilities - Various API related utility scripts that are likely to come in useful. Most interesting are the conversion functions to take data from one db type to another.