Perhaps it has something to do with being the editor FoxTalk? *G*

No..you haven't completely given up on Fox.


>Hey all,
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>OK, so the email subject line is an April Fool's "teaser." :-)
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>However, there is ***some*** truth to it. I just had the opportunity to pick up a small project the other day – specified to be a small database with about 5 tables, with a web front end for order-taking and customer maintenance. It was specified to run on the client’s existing Linux-based web host, with PHP and MySQL as the development platform.
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>I thought to myself, "So how hard could that be?" Now that I've got the user login system and customer maintenance screens developed and the MySQL database created and populated, I have to say that it really wasn't that bad. I've mostly done web work with either West Wind Web Connection or ASP.NET (with either VFP, Access or SQL Server tables) and this was my first time to even look at PHP and MySQL.
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>I found the web-based MySQL administration tools adequate enough, although they run very sluggishly on this $100 per year host. Still, even with slow response time in the tools, I got the database part of the job done quickly and efficiently.
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>For the PHP part, I just took a quick trip to the local Barnes and Nobel, got a cup of coffee from the Starbucks there, and spent about 2 hours skimming a few PHP books before deciding on one to buy. Within 24 hours I had the first screens up and running, although the design of my code is a bit spaghetti-ish. Now that I understand the architecture better, I'll probably refactor the PHP code to use some business-object-style classes – I just didn’t want to slow down this urgent project to study all the "gotchas" of PHP OOP design and find out what its limitations are just yet. The app seems to be very fast and responsive and the client is happy and already talking about another similar project around the corner.
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>Anyway, I'm not abandoning VFP as the subject line might suggest, but have added another set of tools to my toolkit, opening up other possibilities for jobs to bid on. My take is this: Once you've been around the block a few times in application development and understand the concepts and architectural choices (especially with web development), it all boils down to a few trade-offs and different syntax.
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>So, does this mean that I should expect to be run out of town now?