The Multitude of LC web dev tools

Pete Haworth lists.pete at haworths.org
Thu Jul 21 19:46:01 EDT 2011


So far, I've kept myself strictly to desktop apps but wanting to start
working on web stuff now (and Android but that's a different email).

I see many terms mentioned on this list about LC web tools and I'm not 100%
sure as to exactly what they all do so I'm hoping I can get some guidance.
 Here's what I think everything is:

On-Rev - a paid web hosting service from Revolution.  For any web
applications or just those developed with LC and if the latter, with what
tools?

revBrowser - a control you can place on a card and use as a web browser to
any url you could reach with a standalone browser.

revServer - a way to develop web server applications using a mixture of LC
stacks and html

revIgniter - a third part tool to help with web server development - is that
any web server or does it have to be a Revolution based server?

I also see reference to a way of running CGI scripts with an older version
of Revolution on the web server.

And then there's Rodeo although I haven't seen much mention of that recently
and I don;t believe it involves LC scripts?

How far off base am I with those descriptions?  No doubt there's other tools
out there as well.

So, let's say I have an application in mind that a user will access from
his/her favorite web browser either on a desktop or perhaps an Android
device.  On the server, I need to format pages of html to send to the user.
 and access data in an SQL database.  Some of the pages will be static and
others will change depending on database content.  What are the recommended
tools to achieve this?


Pete



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