[web2py] Re: Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-22 Thread Jean M.
Good morning, This community is very understanding and helpful, I really appreciate the input from all of you. In PHP, I really like Kohana. All URL requests are first filtered through URL mapping settings which can be extended and set in any way necessary. Then depending on that URL routing,

[web2py] Re: Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-22 Thread Jean M.
Hello Anthony, thank you for your answer. Is it possible to have wildcard URL mappings without specifying the controller in the url? Say for instance if I want to have, myurl.com/random1 and myurl.com/r4nd0m2 to be forwarded to a single controller to perform an action within that controller,

[web2py] Re: Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-22 Thread Jean M.
Massimo, I have done some more technical reading and have a direct question about web2py's basics. I would like to ask why does web2py come with it's own wcgi daemon instead of relying on an apache with embded wcgi? Thank you.

[web2py] Re: Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-22 Thread Jean M.
Hello again, I have been reading further more and I found out that deploying Python applications with Apache might be a better idea than nginx due to its non-blocking nature and pythons, natural nature. Once you set up Apache to work with mod_wsgi, is it enough to upload files like in a PHP

[web2py] Re: Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-22 Thread Jean M.
I see, but why is it poor app design? If you have, let's say, a social network and you want user profiles to be displayed directly at mysocialnetwork.com/username, then it would be necessary, Could you tell why with Python would it be a poor design? I am asking to learn the essence of the

[web2py] Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-21 Thread Jean M.
Hello, I am a PHP developer interested in understanding the fundamentals of web2py framework and after reading the book and the documentation, I have some questions which I would very much appreciate to have answered. 1) Why (or is) a VPS is necessary to host web2py Python web-apps? Can it

[web2py] Re: Understanding web2py coming from a PHP background

2012-02-21 Thread Jean M.
Thank you, both of you. I am really struggling to understanding the very basics of how Python Web-apps work. Your answers do help. So basically, a python app (running on web2py or not) is actually an app, and it runs on Python interpreter (just like Java apps). So they also contain, naturally,