The Multitude of LC web dev tools
So far, I've kept myself strictly to desktop apps but wanting to start working on web stuff now (and Android but that's a different email). I see many terms mentioned on this list about LC web tools and I'm not 100% sure as to exactly what they all do so I'm hoping I can get some guidance. Here's what I think everything is: On-Rev - a paid web hosting service from Revolution. For any web applications or just those developed with LC and if the latter, with what tools? revBrowser - a control you can place on a card and use as a web browser to any url you could reach with a standalone browser. revServer - a way to develop web server applications using a mixture of LC stacks and html revIgniter - a third part tool to help with web server development - is that any web server or does it have to be a Revolution based server? I also see reference to a way of running CGI scripts with an older version of Revolution on the web server. And then there's Rodeo although I haven't seen much mention of that recently and I don;t believe it involves LC scripts? How far off base am I with those descriptions? No doubt there's other tools out there as well. So, let's say I have an application in mind that a user will access from his/her favorite web browser either on a desktop or perhaps an Android device. On the server, I need to format pages of html to send to the user. and access data in an SQL database. Some of the pages will be static and others will change depending on database content. What are the recommended tools to achieve this? Pete ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: The Multitude of LC web dev tools
Pete Haworth wrote: So, let's say I have an application in mind that a user will access from his/her favorite web browser either on a desktop or perhaps an Android device. On the server, I need to format pages of html to send to the user. and access data in an SQL database. Some of the pages will be static and others will change depending on database content. What are the recommended tools to achieve this? PHP. :) But seriously, revBrowser is for client-side desktop apps, so that won't affect what you want to build for use in any browser. revServer is the core LiveCode engine. On-Rev is a hosting option which comes bundled with revServer (though you can run revServer on nearly any Linux host). revIgniter is a framework that uses revServer. So to build what you need with LiveCode you'd use revServer, and optionally revIgniter (a good choice for making short work of complex apps). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
