Matthew wrote:
> My question is how to go about programming dlls that run on the web server
> and return web page data. I guess this is pretty fundamental but I'm new
> at this.
> Any source code snippets or advice on any of this would be appreciated.
The best advice I can give you is to *not* take the steepest
possible learning curve: which usually involves starting with
simple/cheap/free tools and finding out all the things that can go
wrong on the Web by trial and error.
There are jobs for which such an approach is just fine, but once
you want to support serious applications, and continuously-
available Web sites, you want to build with tools which have most
of the Web "lessons" inherent in them.
And for that, in the Delphi world, I naturally recommend WebHub
(http://www.href.com) which we've been using since early 1996.
For a quick overview of why *we* like and use it, download my
white paper from
http://www.href.com/pub/docsnhelp/whwhitep.zip and have a
quiet read.
(To see the shiniest, newest WebHub site in the entire world,
have a peek at http://FoyleBooks.com -- developed here, hosted
on our US server, performing live ecommerce in the States and
automatically shipping British books out of a UK warehouse.
Public as of about 20 minutes ago <g>).
Hope this helps.
cheers,
peter
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