On 20-11-2010 23:40, Shel wrote: > Hello, > > I am pretty new to all this. I have some coding experience, and am > currently most comfortable with Python. I also have database design > experience with MS Access, and have just created my first mySQL db. > > So right now I have a mySQL db structure and some Python code. My end > goal is to create a browser-based interactive fiction/game thing. My > code is currently just using dummy data rather than pulling in data > from the db, but I think/hope it won't be too big of a deal to > interact with the db through Python (famous last words...). > > My main problem right now is how to do the web interface. I don't know > much about web architecture, unfortunately. I think I need a CGI > script? > > What I would really like is to find a GUI tool to design the interface > that would have customizable templates or drag-and-drop elements or > something, so I wouldn't have to code much by hand. Something easy, if > such a tool exists. > > Also would prefer something that I would be able to install/use > without having much access to the server where the site will be hosted > (on a university server that I don't have control over). I don't fully > understand how a lot of the tools I have been looking at work, but it > seems like they're often things where you'd have to get an > administrator to do stuff on the server (is that right?), which I > would prefer to avoid. > > It looks like Django has some sort of standalone implementation, but > I'm not clear on how that would work or how much of a learning curve > there would be for using it. > > If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I would really appreciate > it. > > Hope my questions make sense. I don't really know what I'm doing, so > could be they're a bit silly. I apologize if that's the case, and > please let me know if you need any additional informmation. > > Thanks, > Shel you might take a look at web2py, it can be handled quit low level, runs perfectly on a the build python server, and you switch to almost any database at any time
cheers, Stef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list