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Hi all
- From LinuWorld 2004 review:
Eskuel is a competitor to PHPMyAdmin, a very popular PHP-based front end to MySQL. It is much prettier than PHPMyAdmin, and seems to have the functionality. Competition is good!
http://www.phptools4u.com/scripts/eskuel/?lang=english
- -- Regards Michal Čihař http://cihar.com
Hi Michal!
Thanks for that product info, I have never seen it before.
To me, this looks like a rip-off. It has many distinct elements used in PMA (look at the result display) but with even uglier represantation. I somehow also don't like the tone of comparison to PMA:
"Like phpMyAdmin, eskuel can backup a table property, export and import the structure and/or the content of a database. You'll be able to add, delete one or more records, control and optimize the size of one table or database, rename or copy datas, in fact you'll can do everything phpMyAdmin does but better and efficiently."
How can that be done "better"? And I don't see it more efficient if you have all interface option in one huge right side panel.
"Better because we tried to create a more attractive interface (just take a look at the screenshots), more ergonomic (you can quickly do everything), more "cross-browser" (no more bugging frames or dhtml) and customizable (absolutely !). "
I think one could struggle about attractiveness, but I really think our pages are cross-browser compatible. And they DO use Javascript as well. ;)
Well, but what annoys me the most:
"More efficient because we wanted each request to be the fastest of the world"
I may want to look at the source of their application to see how they did it faster than we use direct MySQL-function. If they use an abstraction layer, they won't be faster.
But well, I do think that competition is good. However I think their time could have been saved by contributing to PMA to make a skinnable interface. That's the only think I like about their app. And maybe one could have added an "options" panel for experienced users. But for many parts I see just a worse functional rip-off of existing PMA functions.
Regards, Garvin
(And yes, I had a bad week ;-))
Hi Michal & list,
I've already heard about eSKUeL before and tried it but, but I missed many features of PMA.
Michal Cihar wrote:
- From LinuWorld 2004 review:
Eskuel is a competitor to PHPMyAdmin, a very popular PHP-based front end to MySQL. It is much prettier than PHPMyAdmin, and seems to have the functionality. Competition is good!
This "review" does not sound very independant.
"It is much prettier" is imho not a good reason why the whole software is better ;-)
In fact, they have a fancy skinning mechanism built in, but imho the way data and information are presented is not very accessible. And btw, we are talking about a database administration tool, not a bulletin board or a media player... Who needs skins here?
What does the author mean by "seems to have the functionality"? eSKUeL seems to have the same functionalety as PMA? Well, the basic functionalety is built in, but ...
On their website they only describe the functionalety of their software by comparing it to PMA... This is a rather poor way to propaget the own product, isn't it?
imho, we shouldn't worry about that one ;-)
Regards,