[wplug] web programming

[Bill Moran]

Joe wrote:
>> I do a great deal of web deving because it's my job.  For clients I 
>> use either PHP-JavaScript-SQL or ASP-VBScript-Javascript-SQL.
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity.. how does ASP compare to php?
> I've never touched it.. but thought someday I might just for kicks. The 
> one thing I did notice while setting up a server for a client was that 
> you can use mdb files without having an sql server running at all. I 
> thought that would be handy.. but then again you can always use db or 
> csv's with linux..

I haven't tried it, but I believe you can use a mdb from PHP if you set
up ODBC correctly.
However, with how easy it is to install an open-source DB server, it's
probably more work than it's worth.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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