[thelist] Down at the Crossroads
Karin Ransdell
kransdell at squishedmosquito.com
Mon Apr 16 16:21:42 CDT 2001
Terry,
Take a look at Escapade.
http://www.squishedmosquito.com/esp_intro.html
All your server needs is a cgi-bin and MySQL support.
And you *can* have a site up and running in a week.
We've had several webmasters with no db experience
do exactly that.
Good luck.
Karin
ps it's also free
----- Original Message -----
From: Quackamoe <quackamoe at yahoo.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: [thelist] Down at the Crossroads
>
> I have a decision to make and would like some
> guidance. I'm familiar with the relative merits
> of PHP/MySQL and Perl/DBI/MySQL. I feel certain that
> either one will do what I need. I don't know PHP at
> all; I do have a working knowledge of Perl, but not
> DBI. Also no MySQL or any kind of db stuff. Well,
> I've gotten Perl to talk to a flat file, but that's
> about it. I'd love to learn both, and intend to, but
> I can't learn both this week, and certainly can't
> deploy the site in both. So, starting where I am now,
> which approach can get this site up and running the
> sooner. Go with Perl because I already know it some,
> or dive into PHP from scratch because it's easier to
> learn and get running? Also, which one will be more
> helpful in getting me a job in a month or so? ;-)
>
> <requirements>
> Visitors - hopefully lots of them - will upload photos
> of items for sale, along with a descriptive text and
> their name, address, email addy, etc. The photos will
> be optimized and thumbnails created (by ImageMagick?).
>
> Then html pages will be generated as needed. That's
> about it. Oh, and email will be sent to the webmaster
> that something has been posted.
> </requirements>
>
> <environment>
> My hosting company has Perl 5.6.0, PHP4, and MySQL
> running on RedHat 7.
> </environment>
>
> TIA for any rational comments - religious and flamish
> posts --> Trash.
>
> Terry Fowler
>
>
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