On 30 Sep 2009, at 21:16, Michael Larue wrote:
The 2 biggies for me are session management and being able to write
4D code
in the web page.
I would agree with this.
Only thing I would add (and this may be beyond the scope of a 5 minute
presentation, but it's HUGELY handy) is the ability to prototype page
components in Dreamweaver with a site stylesheet attatched, then add a
few lines of dynamic script from Active 4D and have a working dynamic
page in a few minutes. For example:
[1] make your 'beautiful' looking product cell in D-W
[2] put <% = product_name %> and <% =
String(product_price;"$###,##0.00") %> in it
[3] save it as a page component
[4] create another page with a FOR loop and an include
[5] bingo - display your page of 10 products from the DB in the site
template
The ability of Active 4D to integrate so well with real html editors
is a great advantage (even though us hardened DB programmers use
Textmate all the time because the web wasn't invented when we were at
school :))
b.t.w. in a demo, I would stay away from active 4D's own command set
and stick exclusively to 4D's except for stating that it exists and
how comprehensive it is. This will keep everything familiar while
still showing there's and 'untapped world' to be explored.
h.t.h.
Regards
Peter
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