Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:27:01 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Forsberg Mail <info@forsberg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database integration question Message-ID: <19981207142701.C769@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <000701be208d$9781db20$7345fed0@jforsberg>; from Forsberg Mail on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 03:26:45PM -0500 References: <000701be208d$9781db20$7345fed0@jforsberg>
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On Sat, 05 Dec 1998 at 15:26 SAST, Forsberg Mail wrote: > > We are an NT website development shop, and we are accostomed to using SQL > Server and Active Server Pages and Visual Interdev for website/database > integration. > > However, a new client of ours is running FreeBSD. Fair enough. > What tools do you recommend we use for database integration? There is a host of tools available, both for FreeBSD-only solutions, or for interacting with components on other systems. > I noticed that FrontPage was mentioned in your FAQ. Does this mean FreeBSD > has FP Extensions? Not FreeBSD _per se_, no... but it is possible to install FrontPage extensions for the Apache web server (which is currently the most popular web server on FreeBSD... or anywhere, for that matter). > If it all possible, I want to stay away from Perl. However this may not be > a possibility. ChiliSoft's ASP will not work with FreeBSD. Staying away from Perl may or may not be possible. It's certainly not a good idea to be religiously opposed to Perl if you venture into this area, since much of the work that has already been done relies on Perl, and you might make your own task that much more difficult. I believe that there is a group working on an ASP module for Apache, though I have lost the reference/URL. Anyone? > Any help you can give us would be much appreciated. Firstly, which database server will be used for the project? The three most commonly encountered free SQL servers used on FreeBSD are: MySQL - http://www.tcx.se/ MiniSQL - http://www.hughes.com.au/ Postgres - http://postgresql.org/ (Note the differences in licensing policies between the above.) There are many ways to integrate these database servers with a Web front-end - see their respective documentation. Extensive Perl support does, of course, exist for all three. Another very popular methods is the PHP scripting language, about which you can find out more at: http://www.php.net PHP is also available as an Apache module. In fact, it was the first inline scripting language (of which I'm aware) - it came along quite some time before ASP. :-) -- 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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