At 04:39 PM 1/19/2007, Nuno Vaz Oliveira wrote:
Hello!
I'm thinking to develop a database interface for our company and I thought
"great" when I discovered that Visual Basic 6 was able to interact with
MySQL. That's because VB6 is very easy and PHP (even being fast, but its
hard for me) gets slower because the source code for HTML pages needs to
go from the server to the client and big pages must carry the data and the
tags, images, css, formating, etc...
However I'm not going to start a project without knowing that VB6+ODBC
Driver is able to do all the needed operations to
connect/read/write/insert/update a database.
Additionaly I would like to know if I can manage users from VB and to
backup the DB.
If anyone can tell me something about it I appreciate. I would also "like"
(Not Mandatory) to use a secure connection (SSL) but I don't know if this
is possible using VB6/ODBC Driver.
Note: The MySQL Database will be served from our company server.
(Any links to tutorials/tips/recommendations/forums about this subject are
also welcome)
Thanks
- Nuno
Why VB6? This isn't an anti-Microsoft position, but that language has been
left to die on the vine. So I'd think about .NET, or RealBASIC, or ... or
.... You will have to decide.
I trust you realize that in VB ( 6 or .NET) you are doing desktop
development, not Internet development; so take a hard look at what can be
done with a back end scripting language like PHP, JavaScript on the client
side, and the use of AJAX. You might come close to what you need.
Having said that, from the second through fourth paragraphs of your email,
you do not really seem know what you are about. Why don't you build a
trivial little application in VB working from a MySQL database and see if
it does what you want it to do. Write a routine to stuff it full of pseudo
data, using tables / indexes which will approximate the size of your
envisioned application. As for relative difficulty, both PHP and VB are
very easy languages to use, but are used in completely different contexts.
If your thinking that VB is "easy" is based on Microsoft's demonstrations,
believe me the real world does not work that way; there is much more back
end plumbing involved.
Regards - Miles Thompson
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