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Re: PHP and Applescript
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Re: PHP and Applescript


  • Subject: Re: PHP and Applescript
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:23:23 +0000

On 10 Feb 2008, at 05:39, Brian Johnson wrote:

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Grace Finn wrote:

I originally tried this with acgi dispatcher and it worked OK, but I could not get Windows users to stop looking for the acgi file. Someone told me to try php instead.

I don't understand. You put an HTML form on the web. It uses a .php script or an .acgi 'script' to turn that into commands to the robot .. either way the mechanism is visible in the form action.

I don't understand either. Why should Windows users be looking for the acgi file, which sits behind the scenes on your web server? Or do you mean Explorer is trying to download it, in which case there's something screwy with your set-up?



They're roughly equivalent, except that it seems your robot-control app is AE aware, so you have to turn commands into AppleEvents somewhere along the way. I'd stick with AS. If you can run it directly from AS (without the web), you can begin to 'webify' it by moving actions into your .acgi. I think it'll be much saner than php.

I'd tend to agree. PHP may be good for web programming, but it doesn't integrate well with the desktop and will be a chore for anything non- trivial. If your web interface needs are simple, ACGI should be just about adequate for that and will integrate much better with desktop applications. Or go with Python or Ruby, either of which will give you web programming capabilities comparable to PHP's and application scripting support as good as AppleScript's.


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