From: "Joseph J. Strout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:36:30 -0600
At 8:49 AM +1000 4/20/06, Dr Gerard Hammond wrote:
Why are you waiting for swordfish? I don't have swordfish, but
I've been developing a pretty complex web application for the last
several months...
In REALbasic? or PHP?
REALbasic (of course!).
Want to describe to us, in broad terms, how you are doing it?
Sure -- I started with Jon's "Write a Web Server in 100 Lines"
example, and then expanded it to handle POST (and HEAD) requests, and
to serve up dynamically-created pages and handle the responses.
Basically, once you have a web server running, it's pretty easy to
make it do anything you'd do in Swordfish or any other web
development tool.
Except that the web server does not offer the ability to compile in
most RB code into RBScript, because RBScript is very limited.
I can't even use folderitems in RBScript!
I can do it in perl, why not from RBScript??
Perl doesn't cripple it's language this way, in fact it does it's
best to help it be extensible. RBScript is crippled for some sort of
"Security" worry, but don't you think that the most popular scripting
language on this planet (perl) has the same worry? Do you think perl
would be so popular if it was crippled in such a way that you can't
acess files without some huge effort to make a work around? It
wouldn't be very productive then.
In this case, RB becomes anti-productive. It's not RAD, its SAD.
Because you know what you want it to do, but you must do tons of work
making wrappers to provide access to the things (like folderitems) in
a way just as good as you are used to.
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http://elfdata.com/plugin/
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