Re: Re[2]: Euphoria CGI Success
- Posted by Ron Weidner <xecronix at yahoo.com> Feb 12, 2006
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> >> > I am so god damn happy I'm ready to throw PHP > out the window!!!! > >> > >> IMHO, every tool has its purpose. Even after I > >> got Euphoria working for CGI, I kept having to > >> re-invent the wheel when it came to simple > >> CGI i/o, database connections, and form > >> processing. I've been using PHP for a year now, > >> and it works better than Euphoria, mainly because > >> it's designed for CGI. I have, however, come to > >> despise the semicolon. > >> > >> I bid you good luck in your endeavors with > >> Euphoria and CGI. > Just to share my experience: > > Since 3 years ago I used euphoria for automated > registration in my website. Then 4 months ago I > tried to learn PHP and made database+form processing > enabled website in less than a week. > > Then I realized that I could have tried using php in > my old website and I made the same program in php in > 115 lines instead of 290 lines when it was written in > Eu. > > Unless Eu has a library that is reliable and simple > to use for > - database (real database, not EDB that is > easily corrupted) Try this... http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/EUSQLite/eusql.html It works great. > - form processing (not just post and get but also > file uploads) If you don't know how to do this, know this, it's easy. Take a few minutes to learn about miltipart forms and then 20 minutes to add the function to you cgi lib. > - html/sql string function (add entities/backslashes > etc) part of what you want is written here... http://www.rapideuphoria.com/ssl.zip An entities function should take no more than 5 or 10 min to write. > IMO, Eu is not suitable for real web applications. Hmm... odd. Very, very odd. We must have very differnt ideas about what is "Real" and what is not. > But yes, php function names are confusing and you > will be tired of typing '$' sign. > If you say so. -- Ronald Weidner http://www.techport80.com PHP Software developer for hire.