AppGini vs PHPMaker
Here is what our customers say about PHPMaker
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I have invested in serveral "PHP App generation tools" for quite some time (+15 years) and I have gone through several known ones with some good, bad and worst experiences. (Yes I have gone through PHPMaker or ScriptArtist and please, do not talk to me about ScriptCase in which I spent a lot of money & resources, just this license was an initial +$400 plus $100/year support plan not counting some $300 for each upgrade! ) So I can tell you that none had [struck] me in a good sense like AppGini did. I had been an AppGini owner/user/follower since the early versions 4 (2012/2013) and I loved it's concept since the begining. Clean, Fast, Easy to understand and to modify. And the latest version 5.60 is a refreshment of the nice original concept.
Pilandros
Source: an excerpt from a forum post I have tried it and I do not like how the PHP report maker and PHP maker work to generate code. This is why we switched to Appgini. It is much cleaner code and easier to make minor modifications to... My application has been running for months now and works 100% great... Appgini with reports will definitely be more useful than any other program of its type on the market currently. I have tried every one I could find and even without the reports designing a database project for a website was easy and efficient. |
I think you will find PHP Maker a more capable product than Appgini, but it comes with a significantly higher price. Likewise, PHP Maker seems to have a lot more options than Appgini, but you get more complexity with those options, too. Ultimately, it is going to depend on just what you want to get out of the program. If you need a quick, basic database system, either product should do the job. The more control, customization, and additional features you want, the more challenging the choice will become and, I suspect, the more expensive will be the solutions that best fit your needs. In addition, the more you want out of whichever product you choose, the more you will need to really know something about PHP and MySQL, rather than just depending on one of these programs to do everything for you. Then, at some point, you will need to choose which of the more advanced tasks you want to leave to your automatic code generator and which you are willing to take over by yourself.
Danny Weiss
Source: an excerpt from a forum post I've been using several other PHP code generators including PHP-MySQL-wizard, dbQwiksite, PHP-Maker and ScriptCase for quite some time (5+ yrs) and NONE has the 3 components that combined I appreciate the most: Nice + Very Low Cost + Supportive
Jorge P.
Source: a review on hotscripts.com |