Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:34:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best alternative to asp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231926340.6995-100000@veager.siteplus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231538001.22944-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > (The following code is not tested and I realize it is also not as small as > it could be) And I'm not a vbasic programmer... > > Apache::ASP Show all font sizes from 1 through 5: > > <html> > <body> > <% for ($size=0;$size<5;$size++) { %> > <font size="<%=$size%>">This is a sample of size <%=$size%> > </font><br> > <% } %> > </body> > </html> > > "Traditional ASP": > > <html> > <body> > <% for size=0 to 5 %> > <font size="<%=count %>">This is a sample of size <%=count%> > </font><br> > <% next %> > </body> > </html> > > Note the "code" in the first example is perl -- the code in the second > example is basic. > > They are not interchangable. Thus, you cannot just load Perl::ASP and > expect to use a development tool like Macromedia UltraDev and have it work > - as ultradev (in asp mode) spits out VBasic stuff. I see your point. Then Perl::ASP is certainly *not* a unix solution to *true* VB asp. At this point I have to ask, why the effort? If a client would not be able to actually move his existing pages from M$ to an apache::ASP server then I think PHP is a much better alternative. -- Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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