[Zope] Automatically create SQL table from existing form?

Chris Beaumont cbeaumon@msri.org
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:13:14 -0800


Grep and vi?

;)

Seriously, I do that from time to time (I'm converting a lot of old 
Perl CGI.pm forms to use Zope..)

..and simply search for all the NAME's, strip away the fluff and 
build my create table script around the variables.. I shouldn't take 
*that* long..

There may be a product to do something like that but I'd be surprised 
as it's (I think) not super common to only use Zope to email a form..

-Chris


>I've been handed a bunch of HTML forms that currently have the ACTION
>set to a scritp send email with the values.
>
>I want to switch these to stuffing into a database, but would rather not
>hand-examine the forms to find the fields and field sizes and create SQL
>tables manually.
>
>I know there are sophisticated Zope products to create editing forms from
>existing SQL tables (Znolk and family). Great, but not what I need here.
>
>Is there a simple script someone has which looks at an HTML form, finds
>the <input ..> and <textareas ..> and crafts a SQL table from it?
>
>Thanks!
>