On WinNT too, otherwise I could use it for IMail :-)
At 14:13 27.06.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ed Perrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:56 PM
>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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