> You don't have to. The application just services requests on some > port on localhost. It is not a full-blown web server.
Yes, for Linux, most XP Home installs don't come with a web server. The people I'm targetting are middle aged, (maybe younger) women that can get their email, browse web pages, but have never heard of ftp, gopher or irc. They've never seen a DOS prompt, and probably don't want to. I've posted to their groups and found no one that has or will try to install a web server, much less PHP libraries or setup MySQL =P We are computer enthusiasts, I think sometimes we forget that there are a lot of people out there that can't program their VCR let alone trying to setup any server software. I'm not picking on you or trying to put down your post, but the majority of internet users don't want to fuss with anything except double clicking on a program and expecting it to load and work right. =P All I wanted to try to do is take my scripts, which do run on a webserver, and put them in a nice pretty little GUI type program that is a no fuss double click on me and I run program. But, something I can deal with as far as a programming language that I'll have some hair left after I finish the program =P > A good example of this is most modern wireless routers. Almost all > of them are configured by pointing a web browser at the gateway > address on the local LAN side. It only answers a very limited number > of specific queries with very simple HTTP. I've set a few of these up for people, you'd be amazed at how intimidating this can be for a novice user that just wants a small network or faster internet access. > If you can program C, you can program Java. I would presume that PHP > is on a similar complexity level. PHP and C do look similar from what I can tell. I did read somewhere that Java is more like C++ in the way it uses classes as opposed to C's functions. I know PHP uses classes, but again, I haven't gotten that far =P -Judy -- Gossamer Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
