[thelist] ColdFusion and PhP

Richard Bennett mail at richardinfo.com
Sat Jul 7 18:19:27 CDT 2001


> But Richard, don't all those other things abstract the actual workings
> too? Hell, even SQL's an abstraction layer, and every layer of the
> TCP/IP stack is an abstraction layer.
>
> Now if you're writing on the lowest levels of the TCP stack in *binary*,
> that's a bit different - how *do* those gosh-darned electrons get about
> anyway?
>
> Cheers
> Martin


To take the client-side for a moment, you can't go any lower-level than
scripting the browsers DOM using, for instance, Javascript.
If you want to get any lower level, you have to write your own browser.

Regarding database connectivity, all programming languages use more or less
the same principal to connect, and extract a dataset. The syntax may vary,
but if you can do it in ASP, you can do it in PHP after a 2 minute lookup.

If you've learnt it using Interdev, you'll be completely lost without
Interdev.

Cheers,
Richard.





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