Converting a RunRev App to a Web-Based App?

[David Burgun]

Hi,

AFAIK, they wouldn't mind if the user had to download an application  
from their web-site before they could access the database, in fact I  
think they would rather that then just using a browser. The database  
has to be held on the server though and it has to be accessed via the  
web. I don't know if this makes it easier or not?

Thanks for your help.

All the Best
Dave



On 26 Apr 2006, at 19:31, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:09 AM, David Burgun wrote:
>
>> Hi Trevor,
>>
>> It's using mySQL right now, but I could use any SQL based database.
>>
>> I'm not sure of the server configuration. The app allows you to  
>> select an image of a certain size or sizes and then it looks it  
>> shows other images from the database with a "compatible" size. For  
>> example:
>>
>> The user selects ImageA, this image is available in (say) 3 sizes  
>> 512, 1024 and 2048. It will then search the database and find  
>> images that have the same sizes. It's a little more complex then  
>> that, but thats really the core of it.
>>
>> This works just fine "in house", but now they want to make it  
>> available over the web so anyone can go to the page and do the  
>> same thing. There is no authentication in terms of getting a User  
>> ID or Password.
>
> At first I was thinking that you just wanted to connect your Rev  
> app to the internet but it appears you want to convert this to a  
> web browser GUI.
>
> I haven't done any Rev CGI apps but I'm guessing that the only  
> thing you can keep from your original project would be the data  
> layer (SQL calls).   I would think that everything else (GUI,  
> connecting data to GUI) has to be redone to output HTML.  How long  
> this will take really depends on the size of the app and what  
> languages you know and have available on your web server.
>
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Learning Systems - www.bluemangolearning.com
> trevor at bluemangolearning.com
>
>
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