[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One of the things that attracts me to REBOL is its easy facilitation of > e-commerce applications. I invite everyone to check out my company's "Search > Elephant" for our book catalog at http://abooks.com/catalog. I wrote it in > one evening (last night actually) and published it to the net. All the > search functions are handled by just a few lines in REBOL. (You will note I > gave REBOL a big plug<g>.) > > Of course, it would be uncivil of me to just brag about the neat ap I wrote > without telling you HOW it works. It's pretty trival; the real headache is > getting the HTML commands to format right--nothing to do with the REBOL > code, HTML is just a pain on good days. > > I'll be publishing more complete details soon but this search (and any > online search) program requires two components--a way to get the search term > into REBOL; and a place for REBOL to get the data to compare against. Until > REBOL/Command arrives (*pant, drool*) and we can query databases like mySQL, > the simple method is a plain old textfile (flat database). Excuse me, but what do you expect? It's commonly known, /Command supports only ODBC. Is there ODBC driver for mySQL available under Linux? However, I've heard my SQL is listening on some port, so you could probably do some connection with /Core too, if enough info to the topic is available. I would also suggest you /Apache, if you are using linux - should handle things much faster than CGI. > Meanwhile, enjoy. REBOL truly is Perl without the complication. That's it :-) -pekr- > > > --Ralph Roberts
