On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:35:09 +0100 Richard George wrote:
On Sunday 05 August 2001 10:27 pm, David Freeman wrote:
yes you suggested I use a language which mixes content with formatting, requires two new services be installed on the server and something which took 7 months to code, I want something I can knock up in an evening and then just add content to easily. I also want something which can
have the
format changed easily perhaps with the editing of one file.
Obviously I'm wasting my time trying to help you here, and I can only assume that this is why those more familiar with your posting here have not even attempted to do so. I'm not going to repeat the reasons why what you have written above is innacurate, as it's really of no interest to me if you write your pages in C, M4, perl, Fortran or Cobol. I shall just wish you good luck and consider this conversation closed.
Well stop being a zipper head and turn your hearing aid up! Its quite simple, I beleive I have explained this in other mails. I can not be certain that my hosting will always have PHP or the practical alternative to RDMBS (MySQL) and as such your option is no good, especially if it will take me many months to code. You have yet to give me any endering reasons for me to choose it. Also PHP is notorious for heavily loading a server, ask Adam about his MySQL and PHP horror stories.
I want a simple system for generating what I have at the moment from say a list of text files.
The PHP code someone else had can be done equally simply by a simple shell script.
Put head in file head, body in body and tail in tail
cat head body tail > index.html
Somehow I think PHP is a bit bloated for this.
I did also say in my original mail that PHP was out. Last summer I spent 3 weeks trying to get it to install, it never even compiled!
Most of what PHP can do Perl does just as well.
So the question is still out, how can I generate my pages for upload onto the server. Please bear in mind that I can ONLY USE HTML on the server.
As for the comment above about the usual suspects not replying I would like you to explain this!
Thanks
D
Richard
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