Hello Rick,
I haven't tried it yet, but my gut feel on tokens is that they shouldn't be any more cumbersome than in FileMaker. In FM, if you haven't assigned user names and passwords to your clients, you have to use tokens to track them, and that means inserting a token tag in every html page they might visit. I figure that tokens can be handled in Revolution through a log-in or sign up stack that has some personal identification, such as a serial number that can be passed to each page.
My disappointment with FM, as I've expressed previously on this list, is that it is expensive (I can't afford to dish out another $1,500, or whatever the amount, to upgrade from Unlimited to Server Advanced) and, more importantly, the inflexibility of its scripting. I've been tinkering with 4D and finding it quite powerful, but also discovering that the learning curve is steeper than it ought to be. I always find myself coming back to Revolution or MetaCard. I'll let you know when I've completed my first web-based Revolution project. Perhaps some of you may want to critique it.
While I'm here, I do have another question for anyone out there with Revolution cgi experience, and this concerns the speed with which a Revolution cgi returns a result the first time it is called by a client. My first search of Fiction Search takes a long time, say, thirty seconds, to return a page of hits. Subsequent searches are completed in the blink of an eye. Is this a client-side or server-side thing? In other words, will all visitors to my projects experience a potentially confusing slow first response, or is it just a matter of me somehow priming or loading the Revolution engine into memory on my server in advance, so that it's ready for visitors?
Gregory __________________________ Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Canada
On Sep 6, 2004, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 5, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
... The cgi appears to run faster than FileMaker. Very cool. Now, in my upcoming projects, I will have to develop something akin to tokens and handlers that can generate html tables dynamically, perhaps based on GoLive templates. ...
Gregory,
If you ever get tokens and handlers to work, let me know.
I have a lot of FileMaker Pro/Lasso 7 code that I'd dump in a quick minute if the Revolution CGI stuff were totally up to the task.
Good luck and keep plugging away!
Rick Harrison
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