On 4 Aug 98, at 16:29, Bruce Young wrote:
> I have to give a confernece session next week where one of the faculty
> lecturers will be "interviewing" me about the use of relational DB's and
> the web, tools etc. I use CF but as that may be too expensive for schools
> (Asian financial crisis etc) I was keeping an eye out for similiar
> free/cheap systems. I did know about PHP and thanks for the Miva
> reference.
>
> The reason I'm being "interviewed" is that I don't know exactly the
> details of the syllabus for the subject that the schools want to use it
> in... the lecturer does, so he'll be my translator. :)
>
> Are there any other free systems that upper level students could use?
The resource I always go back to is Phillip Greenspun.
Building Relational Database-Backed Web Sites
http://photo.net/wtr/rdbms-backed.html
His favorite tools are
AOLserver (AOL just bought it).
tcl (I'm sure it is like Perl but I am not sure)
--quote
If this frightens you, you could just use NaviServer 2.0. Wizards Jim
Davidson and Doug McKee have done all of the above work for you and
it has been tested in hundreds of production sites since May 1995. I
have personally used this software for several heavily used sites and
feel that it is without question the best way to go for RDBMS-backed
sites. You can write all of your code in C or Tcl and talk to the
database. The Tcl runs inside the NaviServer's process and imposes no
significant overhead (Tcl is a slug but that is negligible compared
to the cost of going out to the RDBMS). [Note: I maintain a server of
NaviServer example apps, complete with source code.]
--end quote
AOL bought NaviServer and changed the name.
Peter
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Exercise Your Brain..Read a Book http://www.rede.com/
Free CGI Scripts and Applications
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