Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:15:56 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web-style database Message-ID: <19981209091556.A5490@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081905540.4474-100000@ogurok.com>; from Oleg Ogurok on Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 07:09:12PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081905540.4474-100000@ogurok.com>
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[ -chat pruned ] On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 at 19:09 SAST, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > > Has somebody tried to make web-style database? Is there any tools in > Freebsd for that? Maybe some Perl/SQL stuff? I have some experience in > FoxPro/DOS. Could somebody recomend me something to create database and > then allow web users query it? Thank you. This is fast becoming a FAQ. :-) There are a number of RDBMS's which will run under FreeBSD, some commercial and some less so. The "free three" are: MiniSQL - http://www.hughes.com.au/ MySQL - http://www.tcx.se/ Postgres - http://www.postgresql.org/ Note that the licensing conditions vary between these three, with Postgres being the only completely free one of the lot. MySQL and MiniSQL get very expensive when used for commercial purposes. Each one has its own ways of interfacing with the Web - read their respective documentation. Each also comes with its own C API, should you want to write CGI binaries in C. Additionally, there are many database-neutral ways of constructing such Web front-ends. One would be to write CGI scriptgs in Perl and use the DBI interface. Another (and a particularly easy way to get going) is the PHP scripting language: http://www.php.net/ -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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