Re: Re[2]: Euphoria CGI Success

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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.

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