Filepro-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 17

[Tyler]

I've done a cart, both a pure filePro version and a version that used
PHP with AJAX calls and sockets along with server & client side
includes that filePro generated.

In both cases it was not worth it.  I can say that tthe latter worked
much better than the former as doing serious web development work in
filePro is nightmarish at best.   And frankly, fpCGI is too insecure
and for us too unstable to use (about 0.2% of executions fail for
reasons our reseller and fptech were never able to correct on either
v1 or v2).  Also, from our testing it seems to scale very badly (heavy
loads, particularly with simultaneous requests, significantly
increased failures and lock ups).

I've migrated our filePro invoicing system to MySQL and am using PHP
for both our shopping cart and internal apps.  A few more rounds of
bugfixes and we should be ditching the filePro invoicing and inventory
management entirely - I think about six months.  Since we only have
one accountant and she knows the system inside and out, that'll be
staying and data will be exported to that daily (realtime isn't
needful for accounting, thankfully).

On the topic of PHP, I rather liked v5 which was my first exposure to
it (and the first to support OO).  While it is certainly very easy to
program badly in, much like VB, for an experienced OOP designer like
myself the OOP updated v5 was a breeze to pick up and use.  Security
is certainly an issue, but that's true of any web framework,
especially one as organic, popular and broadly used as PHP.

Tyler

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Enrique Arredondo <henry at vegena.net>
> Subject: OT: shopping cart on OSR 507 + filepro
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>
> Has anyone developed a web application using fpweb and filepro to run a
> shopping cart so I can incorporate into my webpages that I currently use ?
>
> Thanks