Tony Perez and I used to use the firestorm engine (provided by Lew Bastian) for a DP backend. We switched his site over to a CMS-style backend during the summer of 2012. After that, whenever he updated his DP database, he ran a series of reports to create static HTML pages and then uploaded these to the server using FTP, using the technique Geert explains.
The firestorm engine is still available ( sanbachs.net/firestorm ) but requires C coding to use. For over a decade, Tony's site ( knowmexico.com ) was powered by it, without any known problems. Each kind of HTML page was generated by a different CGI program, which used firestorm to get records/fields from a copy of his DP database on the server. When he made changes to his database, he sent me a transaction log, which I then imported into the server copy his database. It even used keep-a-total to count visitors to the various pages. Best wishes, Bruce On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:17 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ed ! > > What a coincidence indeed that you know the Belgian coast :) > I myself happen to return there sometimes, but not very often: I've been > living in the south of France for the last 35 years and I have mainly > 'virtual' contacts with my homeland ... even while webmastering quite of a > lot of local Belgian web-sites! > > There is no 'online' interface for the sites I make with DP: they are > instead made with a DP 'CMS'-backend, that has a series of reports to > create static html-pages and a menu system on a local computer. These > static pages (featherlight and valid!) are then sent to the server by FTP. > The site layout is fully determined by a separate css stylesheet. > > I did some reading about the different 'hosted DP' solutions, but never > managed to find the time to actually try them out :( > > Best regards, > Geert. > > > > > On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:45:22 +0200, Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hallo Geert, > > Thank you for the links. You have quite a large family! And it appears > quite close knit. I think perhaps your newsletter keeps everyone close and > informed. Congratulations. Very well done. > > This is a coincidence. My son used to spend his summers in De Haan with > his Oma and Opa. When I went with them once, I really liked Ostend (with > their seafood!) > > If you don’t mind, may I inquire how you handled the interface with DP? > > Thanks, > > Ed. > > > > > > > > *From:* Dataperf [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of * > [email protected] > *Sent:* Saturday, October 01, 2016 1:18 AM > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [Dataperf] mastering DP book from R. Alvy > > > > Hi Ed, > > > > I still have a couple of web-sites with DP backends. They're located in > Belgium and the language is Flemish/Dutch. > > http://www.adegem.net/ : > Very popular community website of a small village in Belgium. > Check out the DP-made home page, the digital archives ( > http://www.adegem.net/archief.htm), the entire "Who's who" section and, > last but not least: our weekly "Gazette" : http://www.adegem.net/nieuws/ > > http://www.debaets.be/ : > Family website - exactly the same DP application as above, but with a > different stylesheet > > Appeltjes van het Meetjesland : historical society. This used to be a 100% > DP-site, but it's now mainly a WordPress site. > Only the cross-linked indexes of the annual "Yearbooks" and the library > index are still in DP, > these DP-coded pages run in an I-frame : > http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/indices/ ( = http://www.appeltjes- > meetjesland.org/DPoutput/jaarboek.php) > http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/bibliotheek/ ( = > http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/DPoutput/bibliotheek.php) > > > > > > Regards, > > Geert > > > > > > > > On Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:19:06 +0200, Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if there is still a website running out there with a DP > backend? I’m curious to know how they did the interface. > > Thanks, > > Ed. > > > > *From:* Dataperf [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Bruce > Conrad > *Sent:* Friday, September 30, 2016 2:35 PM > *To:* Peter Boekestijn <[email protected]> > *Cc:* DataPerfect Users Discussion Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Dataperf] mastering DP book from R. Alvy > > > > Looks like you've since solved your problem. However, someone else was > asking me about Ralph's book, and I found it for them in the Internet > archives > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20061014032117/http://dataperfect.nl/files/ > masteringdataperfect.pdf > <https://web.archive.org/web/20061014032117/http:/dataperfect.nl/files/masteringdataperfect.pdf> > > > > Hope this might be useful to you. > > > > Best wishes, > > Bruce > > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Peter Boekestijn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > As the dataperfect site is not reachable I’m looking for another way to > check some question in Alvy’s book Mastering Dataperfect. > > > > Can anyone give help on this? > > > > Kind regards, Peter Boekestijn > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > > > > -- > > > Vriendelijke groeten, > Geert De Baets > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> > Web: http://www.debaets.be > > Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > ------------------------------ > > [image: Image removed by sender. 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