[ic] PHP/IML - IML Admin Tools

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting Russ Mann (tech@khouse.org):
> -snip john beima's lengthy and thoughtful response--
> > To sum it up, if you spent the time to write your users tools in IML like
> you
> > did in PHP, you will find you can develope much stronger and tigher
> > intergration. All you have to do is get past the fear of saying why am I
> using
> > these tools that restrict me soooo much.
> 
> I see your point that IML has some more powerful features than PHP coding,
> and that taking the time to figure out how to do these things in IML would
> be worth my while.  Ok, to go another route, has anybody written admin tools
> in IML that aren't part of the UI?  How would you do this, just put your
> pages in the pages/my_custom_admin/ directory and just code until daylight?
> Are there any sharing projects on the "we wrote our own in IML" admins?  Do
> you have to use a separate UserDB to keep it apart from your customer
> database?
> 
> Has the IC devel. group considered making the UI admin to be catalog
> specific, instead of global?  That way a person could install a catalog,
> with an admin, customize for the use, and not have to worry about things
> breaking on an upgrade.  I think if this happened a bunch more people would
> submit fixes/changes/etc. for the UI because it would be used more.

This is all covered in one of my Tips and Tricks postings.

    http://interchange.redhat.com/archive/interchange-users/2000/msg08546.html

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