For anyone out there developing using the popular MySQL as a back-end database, I've just run across a brilliant program that will help and save all that messing around with the secure HTML logging-in, etc.

It's called MySQL Front.

But unfortunately, if something seems too good to be true then as a general rule, it is. It's a shareware product which is free for 30 days, after which time you must purchase a licence to continue with it.

I was able to connect to my database pretty well straight away (there was one 'connection to the database' question that flummoxed me, but I selected the most reasonable looking one from the drop-down and haven't had any ill effects yet) and immediately see all my tables, start issuing SQL statements, etc.

This is going to prove a big time-saver: if it saves significant time over the next month I'll probably deem it well worth the 35 Euros registration fee (about £20 to me, and the exchange rate from Euros to USD is usually around the 1:1 mark).

Yeah I've used that program for a couple of years it's not really that stable but I have several workstations which I have to hot-swap the: "MySQL-Front 2.5" is freeware unlike the newer versions.

Personally I prefer phpMyAdmin but occasionally MySQL-Front is faster to fiddle with.

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...question that flummoxed me

Living and learning that was new to me Angoid ! Thanks for improving my English knowledge

Please do not post this word at the "word scramble" topic

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flummoxed

It's also new to me Ironbender.

Is that the same as 'floored' Angoid, as in 'That floored me'

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Definições de flummoxed na web em inglês: bewildered or confused: a sudden but temporary condition: eg, I was flummoxed by my mother-in-law's unnanounced arrival. www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/strine/f-2.php

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I was flummoxed by my mother-in-law's unnanounced arrival.

Well Ironbender, I guess the word 'flummoxed' is more like shock

You're quite right ... flummoxed .... as in confused, confounded, threw me off guard, that kind of thing.

Maybe it's another Ango-American difference??!!?!

No thanks... I program in PHP and MySQL, and, nothing is better than my good ol' friend: phpMyAdmin.

Interesting responses .... phpmyadmin is great, and I do use it, but often I like to keep a session open for longer than the default 20 minutes or so allowed by the HTTP protocol - it just gets anoying having to log into the secure server (for a paid hosting provider) all the time if I've left the phpmyadmin session dormant for all that time.

Having said that, last time I fired up the MySQL Front it crashed my system! Used phpmyadmin instead