FLASH: Flash, CGI and e-commerce

[G. Jefferson]

Although I'm a total convert to Flash I have some reservations. I'm working

on an e-commerce site involving a large database of items for sale that can

be searched etc. The usual way of handling  situations like this is to write

CGI scripts to generate HTML on the fly in response to user input, or to use

a program like Tango to do essentially the same thing. Obviously writing

several thousand pages of HTML, even in Dreamweaver, is not on.


I don't see how this approach could easily be used with Flash. I don't want

to use Generator because 1. It's something else to learn 2. I believe that

it doesn't run on Unix servers .


I hope I'm wrong here. Do any list readers have any experience with

e-commerce sites that incorporate Flash on a wide scale? Now that Flash 4

supports client input it's clearly going in the right direction, but is it

ready for prime time?



Gareth.


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