on-rev example: 'globals.cgi' conversion

Sat Apr 18 10:10:37 EDT 2009

I just uploaded the 3.5 linux engine (which works fine for cgis in  
Dreamhost) to on-rev, and so far can't make it work - getting 500  
server errors...will keep trying.

Best,

Mark

On 18 Apr 2009, at 06:58, Jim Ault wrote:

> Very cool, Phil.
>
> And now it could be time for the benchmark wizard (Richard) to  
> establish a standard for the routine posting of speed comparisons.   
> By that I mean CGI running on other host configurations doing  
> exactly the same tasks.  The results could be posted or submitted  
> execution times, load times, etc. (like Google Urchin).  Perhaps  
> each site could have a standard test page.  I know that I have a  
> few places to install a test page and submit a report to a central  
> location.
>
> My belief is that a few of my tech friends (non-Revers) would be  
> blown away by the rendering speed.
>
> The idea is to get several instances of real installations and user- 
> level tasks.  By plotting the averages, this could yield strong  
> evidence that changing hosts, then changing to Rev code would  
> deliver a superior product
>
> It would be cool if the test page included some of the 'tricks'  
> that on-rev.com could do.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>
>> A quick on-rev example:
>> Just to get started, I converted my 'globals' CGI script to an on- 
>> rev web page:
>>
>>   <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>>   <HTML>
>>   <HEAD LANG="en">
>>   <TITLE><?rev  put the short date && the long time  ?></TITLE>
>>   </HEAD>
>>   <BODY>
>>
>>   <p>Server Globals</p>
>>   <div style="padding-left: 12px">
>>   <?rev
>>   put the long seconds into tStart
>>   put the keys of $_SERVER into tList
>>   sort lines of tList
>>   repeat for each line gVar in tList
>>     put gVar && "=" && $_SERVER[gVar] & "<br>"
>>   end repeat
>>   put "version,processor,systemVersion,platform,environment" into  
>> tExtras
>>   replace comma with cr in tExtras
>>   repeat for each line tLine in tExtras
>>     put "the" && tLine into tLine2
>>     put tLine2 && "=" && value(tLine2) & "<br>"
>>   end repeat
>>   ?>
>>   </div>
>>   <p><?rev  put "This page of code executed in" && the long seconds -
>>   tStart && "secs."  ?> </p>
>>
>>   </BODY>
>>   </HTML>
>>
>> And here's what it looks like in the browser:
>>  http://phildavis.on-rev.com/globals/index.irev
>>
>>
>> I love being able to reuse my Rev know-how this way!
>> -- 
>> Phil Davis
>>
>> PDS Labs
>> Professional Software Development
>> http://pdslabs.net
>>
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