Re:FLASH: Flash, CGI and e-commerce

[John Jorsett]

If you expect any sort of load on the site, I would not recommend using CGI

scripting, even if it were possible to author the site that way. Unix has to

fork off a separate process each time the script is invoked, and that takes

quite a toll in performance. I have no experience with Generator, so I can't

answer that aspect of your question. Ignoring Generator for a moment, for a

commerce site, I'd suggest going with either Cold Fusion or Active Server

Pages. For the latter, I think the best development environment today is a

package called Drumbeat 2000. Besides their 'regular' version, I believe they

have an ecommerce edition, but have no experience with it. ASP is generally

run with the Microsoft IIS server, but I have heard that there are 3rd party

add-ons that will support ASP on Unix machines. I don't know if Cold Fusion is

available on Unix or not.


----- Original Message ----- 

From: G. Jefferson <

Garethsmarta [dot] com

>


> 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?



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