[Gambas-user] web-component

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 22.09.19 um 19:23 schrieb T Lee Davidson:
> On 9/21/19 11:31 AM, Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen - Gambas wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> I have a question to the web-component. It is not clear to me what it 
>> does.
>> Is it possible to write a homepage with it?
>> Any examples or tutorials?
>> And what is ment with browser is terminal?
>> I want to write a messageboard, and rotate between various 
>> technologies(PHP, JS, CSS...) to chose from.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Dag JNJ
> 
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.web:
> "This component allows to make a web application based on a CGI script."
> 
> The Web component makes it possible to write a server-side web 
> application similar to how PHP, ASP, and PERL do. PHP and ASP, though, 
> are not CGI-based while PERL is. (And by the way, PHP, JavaScript, and 
> Cascading Style Sheets are not interchangeable technologies. PHP is a 
> server-side scripting language, JS is a client-side scripting language, 
> and CSS is not a scripting language.)
> 
> Yes, you can write a web page, home or otherwise, with the Web 
> component. For an example, start Gambas and create a new project 
> selecting Web application for the project type. Once the project is 
> created, you can look at the code. Another example can be found in the 
> Software Farm. Under the Examples category, you will find SmallWiki. Use 
> filters to find it faster.
> 
> If you haven't already, you may wish to read "How To Get Gambas Web 
> Started":
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/getstartedwebgambas
> 
> Where are you seeing it written, "browser is terminal"?
> 
> 

Thank you for this explanation and the link to the documentation. My 
interest is similar to Dag's. In the past, I did indeed write dynamical 
web content with the help of Gambas scripts, and an IDE approach would 
be highly welcome. In fact, I remember some years ago I even tried the 
new Gambas Web thing, but it was still under production then and I had 
to do other things first.

So I would appreciate a comprehensive introduction, but my goodness, was 
the page written by Google Translate? It might be wise someone who knows 
Gambas Web AND speaks English good enough would make the text more 
readable. I would like to help, but with many sentences, I do not even 
understand what the author could have meant as I am a beginner to Gambas 
Web myself.

By the way, the first link at the bottom of the page is dead, and the 
second points to some Spanish page which says more or less the same (or 
is it the source page?).

The table "1) configuring CGI in webserver" is great, but if I didn't 
know what to do anyway it wouldn't be of much help. Some more 
information would be useful, maybe on an extra page, for those who have 
never done it before.

Regards
Rolf