Just to demonstrate the value of OpenSource, after installing WWWThreads and talking with some other faculty, I thought that a good thing to have as an adjunct to WWWThreads would be a good client that would provide full access to MySQL database in general, but the WWWTHreads stuff in particular. If a "good" general client was available, I thought, then some of the features wishes would go away because they could be handled as part of regular database maintanence.
So, knowing the the code was open source, I stole it. Well, appropriated it for the glory of the revolution would be more like it ( I did ask SCREAM though). Not all of it, but parts of it, and wrote a Web client for MySQL with the same look and feel as WWWTHREADS
http://global.athabascau.ca/cgi-bin/scripts/tmanager/login.pl (you can play with the guest account and look around by just logging in with the defaults). Its still a bit buggy, and many features need to be added, but its a nice tool so far and we've already used it for some university admin stuff with MySQL. Something we wouldn't have thought about doing with only a text based client to use.
the point, I only did this because WWWThreads was open source. This may or may not be something that meshes with WWWThreads, but it is something directly influenced. A contribution only made possible by the Open Source nature of WWWThreads.
mike
