[Xitami] Re: Xitami and ASP / Coldfusion compatibility

[Cybarite]

Re: Xitami and ASP / Coldfusion compatibility

I don't know much about the ASP and Coldfusion needs.  The PHP suggestion sounds good to me. Another alternative that I have been using is the combination Xitami and REBOL via CGI. I use Dreamweaver but now only rely on it for layout.There are some good examples on the REBOL site about how to run REBOL as CGI handler.

http://www.rebol.com/docs/cgi1.html

http://www.rebol.com/docs/cgi2.html

The file of drugs that you look at might be a database but if there are just a few thousand of them, you could hold them as a text file and let the CGI script load it.As an example, I can read 100,000 records of 121 characters each in 0.219 seconds.  For me, that is not much overhead unless your site is getting dozens of hits per second.

If you are getting a lot of traffic there are some Xitami approaches to hold the file in memory (using Xitami's Long Running Web Process LRWP) that work with REBOL. REBOL gives you some flexibility in how you can manage your data on a file if you chose to do that. There is also the ability for REBOL to access mySQL databases if you want to do that.  REBOL sells commercial versions that access other DBs. But you might want to start with the mySQL solution ($0).

mike m