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NoahC
11-10-2003, 12:56 PM
My boss has decided that he wants to take our web pages out of the current CMS that we are using, which is fine, it is a bulky thing anyway... but in doing so he wants it to be completely server independant. What he means by that is that he doesn't want me using ASP to process my e-mail forms, because that would be tying the website to an ASP foundation, and what if one day he decided he wanted to stick the website on a linux box that didn't process ASP? Or he doesn't want to use PHP on linux, because what if he wanted to stick it on a Windows server that couldn't process that?
We also use programs to display the server's time and date, and that kind of thing... so I'm wondering... how? Anyone have any ideas, unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with this stuff to have any idea other than to try to explain to him that we do need to choose a server-side language...
The form processing, however, should NOT be done client side...
soccer362001
11-10-2003, 12:58 PM
form prossessing is best done with a serverside language. I prefer php
PHP runs just fine on Windows servers...
NoahC
11-10-2003, 01:18 PM
<sighs> Yes, I know... but odly enough it is like... he wants server side processing without using a server side language.
And PHP would be a server side lanuage that he would be against just as much as ASP.
Tell your boss there is no other way. If he want's forms processed, and doesn't want it done client side (which he shouldn't), a server-side language will have to be used. PHP is much more portable than ASP, though.
NoahC
11-10-2003, 03:08 PM
Yeah, I'm a big fan of PHP myself, but I never cared much for using it on an NT based system. Oh well, the odd thing about this is that by saying "I even asked on a forum and they said you needed a server-side scripting language" it will mean a great deal more to my boss than if I say it (yet again)... which is really the whole reason for this exercise essentially.
I was guessing that might be the case... :)
NoahC
11-10-2003, 04:19 PM
Well, that and the complete out there unrealistic chance that there just might be some magical way to "just make it work universally on the server without using any scripting language in particular". You never know, someone just might know of a way to sprinkle pixie dust on it and make it work spontaneously! Well, either that or it'd shoot through the cieling like a rocket and take out the office above ours... oh well.
Aronya1
11-10-2003, 05:25 PM
Originally posted by NoahC
You never know, someone just might know of a way to sprinkle pixie dust on it and make it work spontaneously! Wasn't that one of the IBM commercials? Magic, self-correcting server pixie dust?
NoahC
11-10-2003, 05:28 PM
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that it was, though that didn't strike me at the time. Oh well.
I still like the visual of my server rocketing through the roof and attacking the people above though. Not that I hold anything against them, it'd just be great situational humor.