On Saturday, December 7, 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> 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.
You're right! I spent some time I shouldn't have looking at the PHP
reference, and it looks very easy to pick up. The plan, then, is to put up
something static and simple (but better than the current contents ... ugh!),
and follow that with a more dynamic site in PHP later.
Thanks, all, for your ideas. Back to schoolwork...
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Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Sun Dec 08 2002 - 19:26:00 GMT