On Oct 4, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Ronnie Teo wrote: > I am completely new to web development, and to Active 4D in particular. In > the Readme v4.5 document, it was mentioned to Learn Fusebox....can anyone > give any pointers as to how to go about? > > I've visited the Fusebox wbesite, in the downloads section, there are two > versions CFMX v5.5.1 and PHP Version 5.0.1, which version should I download? > Should I just install them to web folder (next to the database application)? > Fusebox is just a web development framework. While developed for the PHP language, it has nothing to do with PHP. Active4D (Aparajita) has just implemented the framework in a library. Most modern web development frameworks implement some form of a Model, View, Controller (MVC) architecture. This, in simple terms, mean that you have a Controller scripts that directs what is going to happen, Model scripts that access the database, and View scripts that display the results.
> A burning question I need to verify is : Is it a must to know Fusebox before > we can use Active 4D productively? Does anyone have any demos that use > Active 4D without Fusebox? Thanks. You could use Active4d without fusebox, but then you have to define how you do everything yourself (control, access and display) and do it constantly so that you don't get a jumbled mess of code - something I can attest to that is not easy and the wrong approach. Being new to web development, I would just study and understand how the Active4D demo works. If you had experience in other methodologies and web languages you might be able to adapt those experience to using Active4D - but that does not sound like the case. If you had other framework experience, you could implement it in Active4D, but that is not a beginner project. The suggestion to lean Fusebox was really meant to understand how the framework is used to develop web applications. Active4D is patterned after PHP and the Fusebox library implements the framework, but in Active4D. Good luck, Steve Alex _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
