ANN: CGI tutorial online

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Jim <jimc at ace-pb.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
> 
> > Just as an additional note : apart from using
> stacks
> > as libraries, the cgi-engine lets you use the
> database
> > and XML libraries like in the IDE, which means you
> can
> > get and even update data stored in SQL databases,
> or
> > even parse XML-RPC calls if you are interested.
> > And all that in our friendly Transcript
> programming
> > language.
> 
> Don't plan on using the built-in XML routines. Only
> a couple of them 
> work. Most of them are broken in the CGI engine.
> Someone else reported 
> that the database routines are broken, too.
> 
> Stick to vanilla transcript and you should be ok.
> Instead of XML, 
> consider arrays.
> 
> Jim.
> 

Hi Jim,

I guess I was lucky then when I used the xml calls in
my tests -- have you bugzilla'd the list of commands
that don't work ?
Revdb has worked just fine for me ever since I was
told you had to 'revSetDatabaseDriverPath' to the
correct spot before using the revdb calls.

Jan Schenkel.

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


	
		
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