PHP all the way. It's free technology, it's powerful, easy to use, ubiquitous scripting language, with MySQL support. Perl is powerful also, arguably more powerful with all the fancy modules available, but maybe slightly less easy to script in. DB, if any, MySQL again, as it's powerful, fast, easy to use, and I know it a little (ok moderate - I never used phpMyAdmin, I do it all by hand). :-) If we're just having an occasional poll, don't see an immediate strong need for SQL at all, could just be flat-file text or some binary hash DB or something. For scalability (if we start with a non-SQL format and later want to import all the old data to SQL), it would be wise to take a small amount of time to document the file format and write a little SQL converter. However, I've had experience with C code and a custom binary DB format, and I successfully extracted the data using both Perl and PHP (it was trivial to convert the Perl script to PHP), and once the data is extracted it's again trivial to wrap it in some plain text SQL file. While we're at it, Apache should be the server, as it's more secure, free, widely known and used. Finally, again, for those not familiar or comfortable with PHP, I highly reccomend their manual. There's a CHM (M$ compiled HTML format) manual which I tend to leave open on my desktop, as it's easy to search, and full of good info. There's also any number of books available on programming with PHP and MySQL. I've got a few PDF copies lying around... And of course I'd be happy to try and answer any questions, or there's probably a support mailing list or forum too, which are a wealth of information.
About having a site off SF, I see no problem, as long as we can have some automation of the mirroring, for backup and redundancy (in addition to Apache, PHP4 and 5 when it's stable, MySQL and secure FTP access). Just add a "mirrors" link, or simply links to both sites on the first page. Leif ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] RE: [Dynapi-Help] Homepage > > For database we could use either MySQL or SQLite > (www.sqlite.org) > > For server-side coding I would go for php as their are > many php developers and site manager softwares > available. > > Personally I like and know ASP, but that might not be > the best choice. > > If we plan on moving the homepage to anothe ISP we > could ask the provider to use the latest verion of php > so we could use phpwebsites, etc > > The current homepage could be used as a mirror. > > > -- > Raymond Irving > > --- Daniel Tiru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes... We dont need a database for that either :) > > > > But i feel like it will be quite "dull" to have the > > member directory and > > those kinds of stuff in textfiles.. > > > > But however...the question was about programming > > language and not > > databases or not :) > > > > Regards > > Daniel > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Cristian > > Grigoriu > > Sent: den 4 september 2003 20:10 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Help] Homepage > > > > > > > How should we do with polls and sutch if its not > > database driven? > > > > Well, that's what I meant by "whenever possible". > > However, for a poll we > > still don't need a database backend :) but we > > definitely need a > > server-side scripting technology. > > > > > Daniel > > > > Grig > > > > > > What programming language do you think we should > > use for the > > > > development of the homepage? Should we vote or > > do we have > > > any options? > > > > > > Since our website is not database-driven I think > > we should stay away > > > from server-side scripting whenever possible. > > Otherwise, I would > > > suggest PHP considering it's Open Source and > > portable. > > > > > > > What do you say? > > > > Regards > > > > Daniel > > > > > > Grig > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Dynapi-Help mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
