Whats the easiest way to create an Admin Panel for dynamic websites?

Question

I've heard about web frameworks like Rails, Django, CakePHP and others, that help programmers to quickly create dynamic websites which are basically a web GUI to interact with a database.

I was wondering if there are ways to "generate" these Admin Panel GUIs pretty much automatically, something like a Microsoft Access for the web? Where the "database" can be designed by non-programmers, and the resulting web app to work with that data be generated automatically?

Answer 1

I suggest you to go for RubyOnRails, it's just perfect for this purpose.

You just have to spend your time learning ruby and rails (in stackoverflow you can find a lot of suggestion about "how to start")

After that these are the key elements you need:

ActiveResource - is a library that allow you creates a persistable domain model from business objects and database tables, where logic and data are presented as a unified package. Zero configuration...

Scaffold or NiftyScaffold - A Rails Scaffold is an autogenerated framework for manipulating a model.

If u need a better interface have a look at the web-app-theme generator

I don't add others word, check this framework and have a look at some RailsCasts in order to understand the power of ROR.