os x & cgi's -- save me from dollar signs

[Jan Schenkel]

--- "David M. Cole" <RunRev at colegroup.com> wrote:
> folks:
> 
> i was on this list for a while last summer and then
> dropped off 
> because of other priorities. time is ripe to get
> started on this 
> group of projects:
> 
> i built my entire customer contact, subscription and
> billing systems 
> all in hc in 1989 (well, i built most in 89; i've
> been tinkering a 
> bit here and there over the years ;-) ... there are
> currently more 
> than 10,000 records in a variety of stacks. i've
> written stacks that 
> ran as cgi's on webstar as well, so i know how to
> construct and 
> deconstruct post arguments.
> 
> while i suspect i'll have an os 9 machine kicking
> around somewhere 
> for years to come, i really need to move this thing
> into a real 
> relational database and set it up as a thin client,
> because the 
> current architecture is one-person oriented and i
> have a virtual 
> business.
> 
> so, i come here today asking advice: should i do
> this project in 
> runrev? all the cgi engines at 
> http://www.runrev.com/revolution/engines/ seem to be
> two or three 
> years old; will these work? is the darwin version
> the one i want for 
> os x?
> 
> i know that sarah r released a stack for connecting
> to mysql last 
> may, but is this a job more for valentina?
> 
> i had to fly to the east coast yesterday and read
> through mysql and 
> php for dummies and the o'reilly mysql book. i had
> vowed never to use 
> a programing language that needed a dollar sign, but
> if runrev ain't 
> quite ready to do this for me, then i guess i'm
> going to have to.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> \dmc
> 

Hi David,

Welcome back to the list :-) Let's see if I can help
you out with some of your questions :

- Revolution stacks or SQL-databases ?
Even though performance gets hit when stacks reach
serious sizes, you don't have to start learning SQL
just yet : have a look at Rob Cozens' SDB at 
<http://www.oenolog.net/ftp/serendipity_downloader.htm>

- Valentina or another SQL-database ?
Valentina is a good choice, but MySQL isn't that hard
to use either, in my experience ; however, both of
these have their limitations when it comes to support
for JOIN and SELECT WITHIN statements.
An excellent choice in this regard, is PostgreSQL --
if you need more info, I'm sure you can poke our good
friend Pierre Sahores :-)
Of course it depends a bit on your needs : if you need
multi-user access to the database, Valentina Server is
still in beta version atm ; that's why I use MySQL for
most of my projects.

- Revolution CGI-engines
The ones at the old page, are for version 1.x of
Revolution ; steer your browser or an ftp-client to : 
<ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/2.0/cgi/>
And yes, you'll want the Darwin one for MacOSX.
What's especially interesting about the 2.x versions
of the CGI-engines, is that they have built-in support
for database access. So you can use the same commands
to store and load data from within your own stacks and
CGI-scripts.
The only dollar signs you'll want to poke around, are
the environment variables -- but you can look those up
in the Transcript Dictionary.

Hope this helped. If you have any more questions,
don't hesitate to post more on this list.

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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