I use Parts & Vendors ( www.trilogydesign.com).

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Philip Pemberton <piclist@philpem.me.uk>wrote:

> Peter Loron wrote:
> > I've been working recently on something like that for myself. It is
> > web based and uses MySQL as the backend. A link to a screenshot is
> > below. Anyway, it's basic so far, but displays a nice sortable table
> > of the inventory, and has several quick filter options for limiting
> > which parts are shown. I'm planning on adding some kind of image
> > library, links to spec sheets, project manifests, costs, etc.
> >
> > If somebody is interested, I can put the code up somewhere.
> >
> > http://standingwave.org/inventory.jpg
>
> Hah! I did basically the same thing last year :)
>
> Not quite as nice as yours, but it did handle auto-importing from Digi-Key.
> I've been adding data-scrapers, but haven't managed to find a way around
> the
> PHP timeout issue (PHP times out and kills the script off after 30 seconds,
> which pretty much eliminates any chance of doing a significant amount of
> auto-import work).
>
> I'm working on an application version of the app at the moment -- same
> database schema (so the web-based system will still work) but a different
> application. The user interface is proving a little tricky to design,
> though.
>
> The application (and schema changes) add support for Linecards (distributor
> X
> stocks parts from A, B and C), alternative parts (LM314Z is equivalent to
> KA314Z, LM324M is similar to LT324AM but has slightly different parameters,
> etc).
>
> I'm also working on tracking parametric data, e.g. capacitance, resistance,
> supply voltage, component type, and so on. The data scrapers grab this
> automatically, but figuring out the measurement units and such is proving
> somewhat difficult, and it's not a high priority at the moment.
>
> I'm still open to working with other developers as long as they don't mind
> the
> final app being released under some form of open source licence :)
>
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