This website is teaching and sharing the use of text-based database (TBDB) to record and read data information. Text-based database was formally known as flat file database developed by IBM in 1970.

What is W3DIY?

The website referring to DIY your website. So, www/3w/w3 referring to world wide web. DIY is Do It Yourself.

Why DIY website?

There was an incident years back when I started the company Dot Design Pte Ltd to market my invention.

That year in 2006, I was looking for an accounting software to manage invoices and other documents. As per all businesses, I bought an accounting software from the market. Furthermore, there was funding from the government with recommended suppliers, so I bought one. However, to my surprise, after 500 transactions the software reached the limit. I complained the issue to the supplier and the software was upgraded to an unlimited version. The limit was released, but the worse was the company profile locked to another company. That is to say the software was purchased under another company name and cannot be changed.

This case was reported to the government and not much can be done. Since then I was set on the journey to develop my own software.

After much research, I found out that all the source codes needed are available in the internet. I studied, copied, complied, and managed to develop an inventory online system. Now, with the help from AI, the direct source code are given when I ask. This has speeded up my development and troubleshooting.

For the very first inventory system, it took me about 3 months to learn and develop. Now, for any application, it should take me a few weeks.

Till now, I have developed applications for accounting, marketing, sales, and operation departments. The developments will be ongoing and nonstop. With full control over the source code, I can add any latest technology available in the market. Furthermore, I can also invent any application that needed by my business.

My message to all of you doing business, do not spend on software, do it yourself. It is all available and free from the internet. Most of all, you have full control over it.

Highlights

- Real freeware!!
- No license
- No subscription
- No limit
- No binary compiled software
- No 3rd party software
- No revision
- No upgrade*
- Text based database
- Full control
- Source code
- Modulars
- Plug and play
- Web based or localhost
- Sustainable growth
- On going development
- Supported by AI


*According to webserver PHP scripting language.

Trial version

This is the Business Suite I developed to manage my business. It will be an ongoing development to improve and add application for the business.

Coding Basic

In this website, there will not have the programming basic that is available in the internet. You are encouraged to learn from the internet prior going through the application module development.

At any stage when you don't understand the module, come back to the basic. So far, non of the bug I have encountered can't be solved by the internet. I am sure that all the code are in the internet. It is just how to put them together to form the application needed.

Basic coding list

Tutorials

These tutorials require learners to have basic webpage coding skills. The programming languages used are HTML, PHP, and Javascript. W3school and ChatGPT are the two recommended sites to learn the basic.

Demo Template

TBDB Tutorials

Buy reference modules

Most of all, you are encouraged to develop your own application for your business. However, if you need a working source code for your reference, you still can purchase the code in module form at a very low price.
Do take note that it is your responsibility to study and understand the code to make it run properly in your server environment.

Application modules

Modifications and developments

Users are encouraged to make changes to the modules to meet company's requirement. Source code editor is used to change the files.
W3DIY will keep developing modules to meet the markets needs. More tutorials, and modules will be listed.