For the past month or so I have been working on rebuilding my little database interface — called WebDB — as a Kohana module. It’s now ready for a first alpha release; you can find it at github.com/samwilson/kohana_webdb. I’ll be putting a demo up soon, and hopefully getting a project set up for it at dev.kohanaframework.org/projects.
This is a project that I’ve been working on, now and then, for the last four or five years. It started off as a bunch of poorly-designed PHP scripts, morphed for a little while into a PEAR-based thing called Cawitm (the ‘Constraint-Aware Web Interface For Mysql’!), then through a year’s trouble as a Zend app, and has finally found its home as a Kohana module. Hence, this ‘first’ release is v.4.0a.
There are a whole bunch of things that I’m planning on adding. Obvious things, like exporting and column sorting (actually, the code for those two is done; I’ll be adding it in the next couple of weeks) as well as some less-than-obvious ones like a calendar view of any date column, graphing (with GraphViz) self-referential tables, and a map view of any table with latitude and longitude columns. If anyone’s got any other thoughts, I’d love to hear them.