a praise for RevIgniter

[stephen barncard]

Swami, just to let you know, what appears to be your personal message to
Andre also went out to the list.  Not to say that anything in it was bad, I
found it interesting.

On 10 February 2011 22:41, Web Admin Himalayan Academy <katir at hindu.org>wrote:

>  On 2/10/11 8:09 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>> In both companies we're using CodeIgniter (PHP) to build custom tools.
>> At DevaCode we're building one custom contract with RevServer +
>> RevIgniter (that is my single server project with them right now).
>> Since both frameworks are very similar, our experience is somewhat
>> transferable between the two.
>>
>> I prefer coding in LiveCode than in PHP anyday but the sheer amount of
>> libraries and documentation for PHP sometimes makes it a better
>> choice.
>>
> I guess my next question then is obvious: which will best for us. I really
> don't want to go with PHP and I think we can find solutions to any
> development need we may have using livecode.
>
> Next week we start designing the new HA web site look and feel, then we
> will start porting page over to the new design (this will be coming as one
> of your projects) and we will need to have our database functional on the
> back end... (sadhunatha will be coming here soon to start on this and you
> will also be involved)
>
> So, then the question will come for us (you and me mostly) for the page
> assembly "layer" i we should go with RevIgniter or PHP.
>
> My own sense is that we could port the entire HA web site over to
> RevIgniter much faster.  The current DOM is fairly consistent, and should be
> easily parsible.
>
> Then we leave TAKA running under WordPress (i.e. mix and match).
>
> Most of the "cools stuff" that Palaniswami will want to do later (rotating
> content, hide and show data, eBooks etc.) are all on the presentation layer
> anyway, and the heavy lifting will be in the Javascript and while serving up
> the underlying content will not be that complicated.
>
> The later on, we will face the challenge of parsing our eBook files to dig
> out content more "atomic" distribution, and LiveCode it think is a much
> better environment for crunching text content, which is a major component of
> everything we do.
>
> om shanti
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
>
>
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