I recently discovered an Ajax CRUD library which makes CRUD operations positively painless: AjaxCRUD

Its features include:

– displaying list in an inline-editable table
– generates a create form
– all operations (add,edit,delete) handled via ajax
– supports 1:many relations
– only 1 class to include!!

I highly recommend you try it out!

Here is the example code:

# the code for the class
include ('ajaxCRUD.class.php');
 
# this one line of code is how you implement the class
$tblCustomer = new ajaxCRUD("Customer",
                             "tblCustomer", "pkCustomerID");
 
# don't show the primary key in the table
$tblCustomer->omitPrimaryKey();
 
# my db fields all have prefixes;
# display headers as reasonable titles
$tblCustomer->displayAs("fldFName", "First");
$tblCustomer->displayAs("fldLName", "Last");
$tblCustomer->displayAs("fldPaysBy", "Pays By");
$tblCustomer->displayAs("fldDescription", "Customer Info");
 
# set the height for my textarea
$tblCustomer->setTextareaHeight('fldDescription', 100);
 
# define allowable fields for my dropdown fields
# (this can also be done for a pk/fk relationship)
$values = array("Cash", "Credit Card", "Paypal");
$tblCustomer->defineAllowableValues("fldPaysBy", $values);
 
# add the filter box (above the table)
$tblCustomer->addAjaxFilterBox("fldFName");
 
# actually show to the table
$tblCustomer->showTable();

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