From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 23 16:34:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B084337B4C5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager.siteplus.net (user-38lc8v4.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.35.228]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08605; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:34:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best alternative to asp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: > > > > <% for ($size=0;$size<5;$size++) { %> > This is a sample of size <%=$size%> >
> <% } %> > > > > "Traditional ASP": > > > > <% for size=0 to 5 %> > This is a sample of size <%=count%> >
> <% next %> > > > > 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