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Today, I write to share with you some good news. The day of DBForms
from Access to PHP +MySQL release has come! Some of you had been
waiting for this moment for a long time. But trust me, it was worth
that. Let’s begin from the start.
More than a year DBConvert Support Department received letters, not
exactly, but of the following content:
“I have downloaded “DBForms from MS Access to PHP+MySQL” and went
through the conversion process and it created the .php and .html
forms. However, they CAN NOT add records from the web forms.
Currently, all you can do is only to read the info.”
Right. Initially, DBForms product was thought up as a tool created in
assistance for web developers to facilitate translation of Access
forms to web pages using php code and Javascript. Very important to
emphasize that translated code was uneditable, unmodified,
unchangeable. In fact, those forms could be used just for data and
elements visualization, mainly in web. Not bad, when all routine is
completed without developer’s control. BUT if the tool can perform
more, why wouldn’t allow it to perform that? What the results are,
you may ask. In 3.0.0 version presentation of converted web code was
improved. Now, it is logically separated into recognized parts
(folders and files). For example, if you would like to modify
elements’ design or style, the correspondent css previously created is
ready for editing.
This is not only the ability realized. Equally important ADD/UPDATE/
DELETE functionality opened more perspectives for web forms users.
Constant connection with MySQL database helps to save changed data and
keep the whole database up-to-date.
In response to users asking for technical support due to appeared
errors we usually answered the following:
‘Your errors occurred because DBForms does not support forms
conversion where query set as record source for data.’
Even before, we knew that 80% of received complaints are related to
the type of ‘query using as recordset’. And mainly, this is the only
reason why query support appeared in DBForms tool first. First steps
were done in direction of SELECT query type support. Everybody knows
that there are 3 basic types of queries exist in MS Access. They are
UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE. But we are not going to stop on SELECT one.
Encouraging by you we have enough reasons to continue.