The first (pre alpha) release of the J1.6 compatible version of Fabrik is available bronze subscribers or above at fabrikar.com.

Hi Peter,

Can you give me more info for fabrik component?

What exactly it does as I can't find much info on the website.

I concede that one thing (maybe the only thing?) that the Fabrik fraternity does badly is to publicise what Fabrik is and can do.

They call it a "form and application builder" (fabrikar.com/index.php/project). It's a low entry cost way of building custom data centred applications.

Here's my potted summary - you can:-

• create custom mySQL tables;
• link to existing mySQL tables;
• view data in the backend;
• add, edit, delete data in the backend;
• import/export data;
• create front-end forms featuring validation, PayPal compatability, AJAX capability, PHP code on events etc etc;
• scheduled tasks.

and there are a bunch of things that I haven't used yet.

For people like me who have an interest (& proficiency) in mySQL & PHP, it's brilliant.