OT: PHP/filePro Tools

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On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:51:59PM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> I have written a couple of scripts and I am putting together a small
> application combining these scripts to turn them into a "must have"
> for those of you that want to have web access without the web
> development.

There is no such creature.  You cannot create custom web applications
without doing the web development.  You can make it -easier-, but you still
have some development curve and time investment, no matter what middleware
you use.

> How many of you out there could use something like this?
> 
> What say you!?!

I say it's not even remotely possible to do it in an absolutely generic
sense which will work in more than maybe 50% of use cases, let alone
for anything complex.

If you can do it, more power to you - but I don't believe for a second you
can do it.  If it were -actually- possible, it would already have been
written by me, and rolled into OneGate.  What, you think I wrote OG, got so
far, and said, "Ah, good enough...let them eat the rest of the development
time."  Or perhaps, "You know, I really hate doing this web development
myself, but I'd rather do it once for each function per client than develop
a write-once/use-everywhere solution.  I'm a glutton for punishment, after
all."

Seriously?

No.  I'm not an idiot.  I've also got a lot more (and longer-standing)
web development experience than you do.  I'd have written it, and then
charged a mint for it, because it would have been worth it - both to me,
and to people with more cash than time.  Too bad it's a unicorn made of
pure unobtanium.

filePro web access without web development time/cost is as big a myth as
perpetual motion.  It can be accelerated, it can be made secure, it can be
many things.  What it -can't- be is a mystical black box which actually
cuts out the development cycle.  Not unless someone obtained filePro source
code rights with the requisite accompanying embedding and derivative works
rights.  Your own blurb indicates this, as you don't specify, "No code
rewrites necessary."  The second you run into an @event trigger in standard
filePro code and try to convert it to web-based access, you incur new
development, and the associated time and cost, full stop.

In my opinion, anyone who actually buys into what is being peddled in this
thread probably deserves exactly what will likely befall them. :/ Even
STN's best solution sitting on top of my own product has its limitations.

Beware garden paths...

mark->
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