Two things:
1) I have moved my mail from david_freeman@rocketmail.com to david_freeman@alug.org.uk so please update your address books
2) At the moment my web page is generated through make and a lot of abuse of GCC's C preprocessor using #define and some other weird and wonderful features for which it was never designed. However this is not the best way of doing it, can anyone recommend a better dynamic method of generating web pages for upload, PHP has appeal but looks very OTT to me. Anyone suggesting M4 will be forced to buy me a drink and then be shot!
Thanks
D
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- At the moment my web page is generated through make and a lot of abuse
of GCC's C preprocessor using #define and some other weird and wonderful features for which it was never designed. However this is not the best way of doing it, can anyone recommend a better dynamic method of generating web pages for upload, PHP has appeal but looks very OTT to me. Anyone suggesting M4 will be forced to buy me a drink and then be shot!
PHP/MySQL one of the best combinations for any website!
Regards Darren
On Friday 03 August 2001 10:19 pm, D wrote:
PHP/MySQL one of the best combinations for any website!
I can heartily second this; PHP, with SQL if you want to use much dynamic data, is excellent - and extremely easy to learn if you know C or Perl (PHP, that is... SQL is like nothing else I know of).
See http://www.cyclists.org.uk/ for what I've been able to do with it, starting from scratch.
All the best, Richard
On 04 Aug 2001 14:20:27 +0100, Richard George wrote:
On Friday 03 August 2001 10:19 pm, D wrote:
PHP/MySQL one of the best combinations for any website!
I can heartily second this; PHP, with SQL if you want to use much dynamic data, is excellent
Gah! Sorry, but MySQL is probably the worst choice you could ever make if you want to use SQL or have a dynamic web site. For goodness sake, please use a PROPER database! Oracle, Postgres, even SQL Server is a better choice than MySQL.
That's better. Rant over.
Andrew (who spent all week writing hundreds of lines of perl because MySQL doesn't even support subselects).
On 03-Aug-01 David Freeman wrote:
Two things:
- I have moved my mail from david_freeman@rocketmail.com to
david_freeman@alug.org.uk so please update your address books
- At the moment my web page is generated through make and a lot of abuse
of GCC's C preprocessor using #define and some other weird and wonderful features for which it was never designed. However this is not the best way of doing it, can anyone recommend a better dynamic method of generating web pages for upload, PHP has appeal but looks very OTT to me. Anyone suggesting M4 will be forced to buy me a drink and then be shot!
Thanks
D
M4 is evil to my mind also, I remember the faces at the end of a manlug talk on sendmail's config when I asked would people use M4 for their projects.
Anyway whats your web address wo we can all have a look.
My session management system has been delayed by me playing with kylix, but it is simple. PHP is nice and fast to develop I here but I have also heard very good things about perls template model for web page generation but perl's not my cup of tea. I would be playing with AXkit if it was. (perls templates are not the same as c++ templates).
Maybe you could give us a list of features you wish to support
Owen
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