[techtalk] Dynamic Web sites on Linux

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Jen,
  I use a mix of php and html. PhP is great for db apps. My site uses IMP
for web based mail, I have a LDAP search written in PHP, and also use it
for session id's and htaccess. Commonly MySQL is the db preference of PHP
users but I have found good success with Postgres.

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
Seattle WA
206 634-3082 ext. 270

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 jennyw at griffon.personic.com wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone cared to share their experience with developing
> database aware Web sites on the Linux platform.  For example, I know that
> there are several tools out there, like PHP, Enhydra, Locomotive, of course
> Perl and Python, etc.  I'm looking for something that's relatively easy to
> use to build a Web site that accesses a database, and the pros and cons of
> each. I know, this is a really open ended question ...
> 
> I'm looking for things like:
> 
> * Reliability (e.g., CF 4.5 might be unstable -- on other OSes, users are
> asking Allaire to make CF 4.0 available instead of only allowing them to buy
> 4.5)
> * Scalability (e.g., how many users, pages, and/or transactions can a
> platform realistically support per minute or hour?).
> * Community support (e.g., Perl and Python have great support communities;
> Cold
> Fusion is okay, but their forums are slow and the search facility is poor).
> * Cost (e.g., Enhydra, Perl, Python, Apache, and PostgreSQL are free; CF
> costs $999; WebLogic and Oracle can be pretty expensive solutions).
> * Availability and release history (e.g. Enhydra doesn't yet support EJBs
> directly; CF 4.5 is the first Linux release; Perl 5 has been around for
> years).
> * Speed of development (e.g., CF allows you to get started right away, but
> maintainability can be an issue; Enhydra can take a while to setup, and it
> can take a while to develop a Web site)
> * Unique features (e.g. Enhydra's XML C is a great way to separate business
> logic from presentation; Python is a pure object-oriented scripting
> language).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jen
> 
> 
> 
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