I think that's what he had in mind, PHP is very similar to cold fusion,
except it runs on unix and it is free. See www.php.net for more info.
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From: "Ed Perrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Well... New generation of templates maybe ?!?
> While the general concept of an independent front end has merit,
> I think that it might be better handled by writing a front end
> using something like Cold Fusion that simply writes the values
> directly into the registry or into the ODBC-connected database.
>
> Using the 'built-in' templates to handle all the various
> 'function calls' adds a layer of complexity that isn't required
> and certainly introduces significant performance penalties.
>
> In my (admittedly limited) review of the registry updates for
> things like aliases, lists, etc. there doesn't seem to be
> anything that should be that hard to handle.
>
> My two cents, worth exactly what was paid for it.
>
> --- Ed Perrine / Network Tallahassee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J.Heuing
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Well... New generation of templates maybe ?!?
>
>
> Hi !
>
> I am thinking about a project which can be done with a lot of time. I will
> tell you, because I am intersted if something like that exists.
>
> I am using IMail5, so I will develop the thing for IMail5, unless someone
> will give me the new version in change of a free template set :-)
>
> That what we are thinking about is using php to read the pages IMail
> outputs and change to content as we want it to be: For example we are
> setting up a form by reading the output of IMail into php. So, we have a
> variable with the whole content of the page. Than we keep doing that. We
> have to change any input to a new adress. Let's say, someone clicks a
link,
> we have to change it first, that not the IMail-page is loaded, incase of
> that a new php will be loaded but with the contet of the imal page changed
> internal.
>
> Hope you get that.
>
> As you can guess, it offers many posibillities: At the backend of IMail,
we
> will use a database. With that system, we can set up a whole community
> thing: using a database via ODBC, it makes it possible to use somekind of
> signup scripts and to use data in anyform. Kind of adress databases for
> example. Same time, we can put in the pages database driven input like
> news, forums, whatever.
>
> Great idea, we first will develop a system which makes it possible to read
> the content of the pages, put's th elinks into an array to use it later
and
> have some templates which are used to output the content. Obvious with
php,
> that we can modify the content as we want.....
>
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