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Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449415

PHP rapid skeleton generator for basic CRUD?

I have been tasked with building a simple web based system for managing a list of vehicles.

I am interested to know whether there are any robust, clean PHP 5 frameworks / libraries that are specialized in doing this quickly.

They should be able to quickly build a skeleton web back-end to an arbitrary data structure with the basic functions:

Nice to haves:

Wet dreams:

I am aware most big frameworks provide tools and helpers for this, but would prefer a standalone, light-weight solution that is easy to get into.

Alternatively, is there a great PHP application that you would recommend looking into to modify to suit my needs?

Upvotes: 15

Views: 14449

Answers (9)

user2886971
user2886971

Reputation: 71

I would recommend xcrud from xcrud.net. First of all it abstracts mysql databases creates CRUD apps withb3 simple lines.

Basically I have been able to build nice enterprise applications with minimal efforts. You concentrate more of the business logic and less of the php and myself code.

Upvotes: 0

mwotton
mwotton

Reputation: 2200

As far as building skeleton apps goes, nothing comes close to the Yii framework.

From the site:

MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, jQuery-based AJAX support, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, input validation, widgets, events, theming, Web services, and so on. Written in strict OOP, Yii is easy to use and is extremely flexible and extensible.

It also includes CRUD code generation. Headed by the guy who did Prado.

Upvotes: 10

Shoaib Ahmed
Shoaib Ahmed

Reputation: 781

The best i have seen around in years http://www.grocerycrud.com/ its for codeigniter

Upvotes: 1

dylanized
dylanized

Reputation: 3855

I've been looking for a drop-in admin panel like this too, so far I've 2:

AjaxCrud - http://ajaxcrud.com/

Peek from Code Canyon - http://bit.ly/toKKrB

Love to hear any other suggestions!

Upvotes: 0

iJames
iJames

Reputation: 650

I've seen awesome demos of the instant blog in Rails and Django and Symfony.

Looking at Zend, Cake, Symfony, Symfony seems the most like Rails/Django. Check out the 10 minute (yeah, super sped up!) demo. It's pretty sweet:

http://www.symfony-project.org/screencast/cart

My experience tells me that there's no framework, lightweight or otherwise that you can easily do what you want quickly if you don't know it. So that's where the tutorials come in. You really need a nice ORM to avoid all that mess with the DB and or reinventing that with a CMS. So the best bet is to choose the one with the best docs, the best tutorial + screencast, in the language you know that gets you closest to your requirements by just changing the names of the variables. I know Django can do all that you're asking with Django 1.2, but with PHP 5 being the requirement, Symfony and it's ORM is my first suggestion.

Yii looks like something I'll be taking a look at right now! Yii-Haaw!

Here's Yii's screencast of blog making: http://www.yiiframework.com/screencast/blog/

Not bad so far! But it's quite a learning curve to get the blog working. Very similar to Rails.

Upvotes: 1

Dat Nguyen
Dat Nguyen

Reputation: 1

There are several PHP frameworks that meet your requirements (basic requirements). You should use a framework that you are most familiar. If you do not familiar with any framework, I suggest you to use the CodeIgniter.

Upvotes: 0

philfreo
philfreo

Reputation: 43804

If you don't want a big framework, you could check out phpactiverecord

Upvotes: 4

selfsimilar
selfsimilar

Reputation: 1387

Sapphire has a lot of promise. I have used the CMS built on it - SilverStripe - for a few projects and it's very nice. But I haven't dug into the back-end too much.

From the website:

  • Our Object-Relational Mapper takes care of your data. Define your data model using our simple PHP5 syntax and our ORM does the rest.
  • Tell Sapphire about your data model, and you get 3 interfaces for free. A RESTful API, a SOAP API, and an admin editing interface.

It's not exactly lightweight, but its core is ~1.3 MB but meets a lot of your "nice to haves"

Upvotes: 0

Nurul Ferdous
Nurul Ferdous

Reputation: 157

I would recommend CakePHP

Upvotes: 2

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