on 30/5/04 6:59 pm, Ryan A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
> A prospective client has asked me to try to convert his Swedish site so that
> visitors have a choice between Swedish and English, which is not a problem
> as I am fluent in both languages. After going through the site to convert I
> was just checking out the current pages and I saw that all the links have a
> .lasso extension instead of the "normal" .htm,.html,.php etc
>
> Did a quick search on google and found this
> http://store.blueworld.com/lp7.lasso
>
> sure looks like the same stuff but am not sure...
>
> Anybody here worked with Lasso? any suggestions or comments?
>
> Thanks,
> -Ryan
Hi Ryan
Lasso is a flourishing middleware program that does much the same job as
PHP. Its downside is that it is proprietry (owned by Blue World) so you have
to pay for it, and ISP charges are higher. The upside is that it is
generally (everyone - please don't start a war over this!) quicker to
develop in Lasso than PHP. It is more tag based than PHP, so probably less
intimidating to HTML programmers than PHP is. For example if constructions
look like this:
> if:(condition);
> code here;
> /if;
You must close with the /if; but you don't get tied up in lots of {} pairs.
It is also generally (no war please!) much more secure than PHP. Or rather
the security is built in, and access can be set even on a tag by tag basis.
(I'm a PHP novice, so can't fully compare the two).
Its roots are in FileMaker, and it is still likely to be the best way to get
a Filemaker database on-line, but don't let that fool you. Since Mac OSX
came along, Lasso comes with an integrated version of MySQL and can connect
to stand-alone installations of MySQL directly (and other databases
indirectly I believe). It's very powerful and has OO capabilities.
That's enough about Lasso on a PHP list. If you want to know more, by all
means email me off list, or join LassoTalk (email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Roddie Grant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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