RE: Mixing GET and POST Methods

["Dave George" <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad's book, Brad's book - so good I bought it twice! :)

But that's another dull story as to why I ended up with 2 copies!

 

I have ruined at least 10 peoples lives by introducing them to Brad's book. I

say ruined, because they got re-hooked on coding. We all, myself included, thought

it was well written, well rounded, and every bathroom should have a copy :)

It explained "how" and more importantly "why".

 

I have introduced most of the same people to CGIDEV2, and that showed "what".

 

I would say it's probably 50/50 split between who prefers which methods.

I myself use a mixture of both.

 

I also use a package which gives a different slant on things. I even dug out

CGIPROTO from the "Sourcerers Guide" and use that where I see fit.

 

A lot of my decisions as to what to use are the level of competency of the

staff that will have to maintain my sh*t  when I'm gone. The balance between simple

and long, complex and short! I'm not saying either is complex, but you should see the

"rabbit in headlights" look I get sometimes when I mention "API", let alone "HTTP Server"!

 

IMHO, the world is still big enough for both e-rpg and CGIDEV2. It may even

be big enough for Websphere too, but I doubt I'll live long enough to get the mother

running!

 

DG

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-web400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-web400@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Mike Skvarenina
Sent: 07 August 2001 12:16
To: WEB400@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Mixing GET and POST Methods

Wow, this 'discussion' is getting quite deep.  Why don't we sum it up and move on to using this list for 'helpful' discussions. 

 

Before we do however, allow me to throw in my 2 cents...

 

 I too started off with Brad's book and found it a very helpful introduction into CGI using RPG but I too ran into problems when I wanted to pass variables from one interaction to another.  I emailed Brad and he promptly answered my email and we spent about a week in email conversation as he tried to help me out.  Then I stumbed on CGIDEV2 and discovered that many of my questions were answered in the sample programs.  I also discovered that CGIDEV2 took out much of the busy work Brad discusses in his book such as calling the parsing APIs.

 

Bottom line for me is that Brad's book is an excellent introduction to CGI development using RPG while CGIDEV2 and it's service program is the conduit to make it happen fast and furious.  We've had incredible success using CGIDEV2.  Our biggest challange now is coming up with the HTML and graphics to produce the web pages we want...the RPG behind it is simply plain old RPG.