Web programming tools

[Yennie at aol.com]

Hi,

Personally, I give big thumbs up to PHP and MetaCard in this realm (plus 
Apache, and MySQL if you need a free server database).

With MetaCard you'll keep the benefits of the scripting language, but you 
will either have to generate the HTML from scripts or put PHP in the middle. 
It will be harder to fiddle with the HTML, because you'll be effectively 
hand-coding it, except harder.

The major advantage of PHP is that you can embed HTML in your PHP files, 
giving you a much more elegant way to separate interface from code. As has 
been documented in the list archives by Pierre, you can always use PHP to 
talk to a MetaCard stack running in the background.

The most decisive factor will of course be your particular application, but I 
recommend looking at PHP, and not necessarily scrapping MetaCard: each has 
their perks in terms of elegance, and they both perform fairly well. MySQL is 
probably the easiest to use and configure of the major database players, and 
Apache is the way to go for web server software unless you specifically need 
something else.

HTH

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Brian Yennie
Chief Technology Officer
QLD Learning, LLC
www.QLDLearning.com

PH: (904)-997-0212
EMAIL: Yennie at aol.com
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