Hi there, I have an application which uses several tables in a database. Now, I need a quick way to manipulate the data in the tables. The application does not provide any means to do that. (Modifying the data should be done by regular users, so changing the values directly in the database using their management software is not an option.) I know that tools like PHPRunner can do these kind of things, but I am not sure if I should buy a tool if that could be easily done also using Laravel.
I could imagine that I am not the first one looking for that kind of software and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Maybe there's already a ready-to-use project somewhere laying around on GitHub or there's a tutorial on how to do that easily. Most of the code should be boilerplate, I guess... I know that Laravel can automatically create the database for me and automatically store my application data in the database, but this scenario i somewhat "the other way around". Any ideas on how that could be done?
Best Tom
Hi skdishansachin, thanks for your answer. Basically you are right. I would like to add, remove or modify data without using the database management software. Please note, that the target application is not a Laravel application. The target application is a closed-source software. The software expects data in a database and I would like to be able to add this data to the database easily. Even more that that: The data should not be entered by the IT team, but by end users. That means that there needs to be some web pages which allow for data manipulation in the database. Of course, one could write this software manually (i.e. using plain PHP), but I thought that there might be software available which can do exactly that: Provide a frontend to manipulate data in certain tables of a database so that other software can work with that data. There's already a database available, so there's no need to have Eloquent create a database in the background and automatically save data there, the software should rather use an already existing database and expose some tables to the user allowing them to manipulate data (CRUD). (Of course, it would be no problem to manually write the Eloquent statements so that the existing database structure is also reflected there, but I am not sure if this is how it's meant to be used...) I am not sure if Filament is the tool I am looking for. Maybe? I'll check that tomorrow. Thanks again for your answer and hints!
Best regards, Thomas
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