On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> Yeah, but CGI is the only way I know how to generate dynamic pages at the
> moment. I'd love to create a nice PHP-based, database-backed site with cool
> features like the most recent posts spilling down the front page in full
> blog style, but it would take me 2-4 weeks of learning time plus development
> time. It could be February or March before this was done. WWW development
> just isn't where I've been for the last 7 years.
Actually, it would take days. PHP is just (almost) Perl but even easier
to program in. Jay should already have PHP loaded onto the CC web server.
> Maybe that's what I need to do. First, get something that's (a) simple,
> (b) consistent, and (c) doesn't suck -- put it up there soon (wouldn't
> take long), and then start working on something better and more
> time-consuming.
It's amazing we haven't been hit by floods of spam yet.
> I guess I could always Learn ASP.NET in 24 Hours! Just kidding...
I found it quite easy to jump into PHP because the language is basically
an amalgamation of C++ and Perl. I can't say the same about ASP or .NET
(which I haven't looked at and probably never will).
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