[CLUE-Tech] ASP alternative.

[Mike Staver]

PHP is very similar to ASP from what I've done with it, but this thing 
about ASP auto generating output for you I'm sure is nice.... but it's 
incredibly easy to do the same thing with PHP.  You can sort the data by 
using SQL queries, then spit out the data with a loop of the query using 
table tags.  I've written hundreds of pages that do this very thing using 
Cold Fusion on Linux.  I have written maybe 5 or 6 doing this using PHP, 
so if you need code examples, email me and I'm happy to help.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, David Anselmi wrote:

> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:39:39 -0700
> From: David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net>
> Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> To: clue tech list <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
> Subject: [CLUE-Tech] ASP alternative.
> 
> I know a little about ASP, and version 2 of ASP .NET seems to be a 
> considerable improvement (time will tell, it's alpha at the moment). 
> But I could use some of its functionality.  So what's the best way to 
> get that on Linux?
> 
> Here's an example.  In ASP, a few lines of code run a database query and 
> a few more hook it into a "datagrid control" (most of that can be done 
> drag and drop but that isn't too important).
> 
> Then the datagrid can be placed on a web page (it looks like an html 
> element) and when rendered it will display a table with the results of 
> the query.  It isn't terribly hard to make the table alternate row 
> colors, have a header and footer, or sort by column when the user clicks 
> it (they even do autoformatting ala Word, but that's just automatic code 
> generation).  And you can put your input form and your output data on 
> the same page pretty easily.
> 
> So what can I use on Linux to easily build forms that enter and display 
> data?
> 
> I expect that JSP can do this.  When I used it a few years ago they had 
> the technology, just not a good library of components.  Maybe they're 
> better now.
> 
> PHP pages seem similar to ASP (less so to ASP .NET), but it doesn't seem 
> quite object oriented enough to me.  Still...
> 
> I recently used Perl's DBI module.  That was cool, it was like my second 
> day of Perl and I managed to insert data from a text file in to several 
> related tables.  I guess PL/pgSQL might have done the same, but probably 
> reading from the file would have been harder.  So it would be cool to be 
> able to use Perl objects in a web page.
> 
> Another possibility is Zope, I guess.  But it looked a lot like early 
> JSP when I looked at it a while ago.
> 
> I guess that if I had to start from scratch and make my own components 
> I'd use JSP (what a waste, everyone else must be doing the same thing). 
>   So who knows a better way?
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave
> 
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