[GRLUG] Client/Server Database app question

[Al Tobey]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:04 -0500, Chris Lamrock wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> We are using a very old windows based database program I wrote in Foxpro 
> 2.5 - and updated in Visual foxpro 6.0 in 2001 or so.
> 
> I am thinking of a complete revamp and am also thinking about a 
> Client/Server type setup.
> 
> My thoughts are SQL with a web browser front end.  I haven't done anything 
> like this before but thought it might be a good/fun project.
> This software is a database of job quotes and will have to print out a 
> single page quote perfectly formatted - as well as display it on the screen. 
> The software will allow the user to enter/add/print/view/delete and search 
> for documents.  My current version has about 6 databases.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> What would be a good language to write this in? Perl?

Perl would be a fine language for this!  Then again, I'm biased:
http://grand-rapids.pm.org/

I would highly recommend looking into the Template Toolkit and
Class::DBI.   You might even take the step to one of the bigger
frameworks like Maypole or Catalyst.

Template Toolkit has some tools that can help you output to both HTML
and PDF from the same application.   That might be worth looking into if
printing is truly important.

http://www.template-toolkit.org/
http://maypole.perl.org/
http://catalyst.perl.org/

You might save some time for a CRUD app with Ruby on Rails.   I haven't
used it myself, but I've heard lots of nice things about it

-Al Tobey

> 
> 
> Is a "perfectly formatted document" printout doable from a web browser?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
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