[H-GEN] Web development systems

[Michael Anthon]

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Thanks for all the input from everybody.  I'm reading away madly here, this
XML stuff looks pretty interesting.

Currently this system is using an MS Access client and can use either MS SQL
or the MS Jet backend for data storage.  I am hoping to use an open source
solution for this, however a closed source solution that has multiple
platform support would be acceptable and I could possibly be totally ignored
and told to use something totally proprietary and not very portable.

Personally I would be quite comfortable using PHP and PHPLIB since I am
getting quite proficient with this and I have it running on all sorts of
platforms talking to all sorts of databases via various methods and it is
totally transparent [1].  The only issue I have with this approach is the
separation of the code from the HTML design (my HTML design skills suck, to
say the least), although there are several template implementations
(templates in PHPLIB and FastTemplates to name a couple) that seem to do a
pretty nice job of this.

Anyway, I still have a bunch of research to do on this and at this stage it
is all just so that I am fully primed when I am asked questions.  If all
this goes ahead, it is quite probable that we may need a couple of extra
people to do this work.  The company I work for, has just been bought out by
a rather large global management company (only just last week) so this whole
situation is terribly unstable until I have a chance to talk to the new
Power's That Be and they formalise a strategy on future development.  If
people are interested, I can post to this list if any jobs are to be
advertised.

Cheers
Michael Anthon



[1] Probably the most evil is using PHP on Win98 Personal Web Server talking
to MS SQL Server via ODBC, closely followed by Apache/PHP talking to MS SQL
Server via the Sybase CT-Libs.  I also have it running on Solaris and
whatever their web server is called (no db stuff on that yet) and have the
Linux one using MySQL and postgresql.  Oh, and also NT/IIS/PHP and
NT/Apache/PHP.

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