Article Discussion: How To Create A PHP Front-End To Your MySQL Database Using DaDaBI

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Perhaps I am confused, but just where is the article to which you are referring?

It's on the front page of the site:

http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/200

hello

In the article you mention that you populate select boxes using ~'s.

Is there any way to specify a table to use instead?

thx

I have installed dadabik and find it very useful.

I want to incorporate it into another script. Do you plan to write on different ways of integrating forms made with dadabik into frontend of web sites? I imagine you just call form.php for a basic implementation but what about setting up variables to be used with another script?

It is simple to password protect the admin functions.

(I tested this with version 2.2.1 Beta)

(1) create a new dir called admin in the same dir where
css form.php images etc. are.

(2) Move your admin.php file into this new admin dir.

(3) Edit the admin.php file and insert one line (shown as bold below)

// include config, functions, common, check_table and header
chdir("..");
include ("./include/config.php");

(4) Use your web hosting control panel to password protect the new admin dir.

Now you can access the admin file as
URL
after you enter your user/password in the pop-up authentication window.

Hope that helps!

Tex

Hi,

i was able to correctly PW protect the new dir and moe the file, however, the addmin.php cannot find the internal table manager now. what else should i alter?

thanks

rmelman, I would place all the files in the admin folder instead of just the admin.php file, and work from there.

I see no reason for all the files to be located outside the admin folder, not unless you are using them for the main site.


Thanks Eugenio for writing this article.