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Re: Tools and Techniques



Tim McDonough wrote:

>I'm looking for recommendations, tutorials, and tools/languages to use 
>for developing applications that are web based -- the user need only 
>have a browser and permissions to use the application.
>
>Ideally I'd like to be able to have on screen forms with text boxes, 
>check boxes, and radio button type elements. Drop down lists would be 
>nice but not absolutely necessary. Any libraries or frameworks based 
>on Perl, PHP, Python, HTML, etc. available that you can recommend?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim
>  
>
If an internet connection is something they will have then I would 
recommend using server side development if at all possible.  It allows 
you to be completely browser/client OS agnostic and write code that will 
make a web site that will work on any computer with a browser.

That said, PHP is the easiest to learn and there are _TONS_ of already 
done applications in php that can easily be tweaked to do what you want.

PERL is the next step up and is very easy to learn and the power curve 
ramps up very nicely.  If you're just writing an application that won't 
be hit more than 10,000 a day or so,  CGI is completely fine.  Anything 
more than that and MOD_PERL or PHP would be the best way to go.

The screen forms and text boxes and elements like that are simple html 
and the language behind the application just writes out plain old html 
and parses what the user types into the forms.



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