This looks very promising. Thanks so much! Shel On Nov 20, 4:36 pm, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20-11-2010 23:40, Shel wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am pretty new to all this. I have some coding experience, and am > > currently most comfortable with Python. I also have database design > > experience with MS Access, and have just created my first mySQL db. > > > So right now I have a mySQL db structure and some Python code. My end > > goal is to create a browser-based interactive fiction/game thing. My > > code is currently just using dummy data rather than pulling in data > > from the db, but I think/hope it won't be too big of a deal to > > interact with the db through Python (famous last words...). > > > My main problem right now is how to do the web interface. I don't know > > much about web architecture, unfortunately. I think I need a CGI > > script? > > > What I would really like is to find a GUI tool to design the interface > > that would have customizable templates or drag-and-drop elements or > > something, so I wouldn't have to code much by hand. Something easy, if > > such a tool exists. > > > Also would prefer something that I would be able to install/use > > without having much access to the server where the site will be hosted > > (on a university server that I don't have control over). I don't fully > > understand how a lot of the tools I have been looking at work, but it > > seems like they're often things where you'd have to get an > > administrator to do stuff on the server (is that right?), which I > > would prefer to avoid. > > > It looks like Django has some sort of standalone implementation, but > > I'm not clear on how that would work or how much of a learning curve > > there would be for using it. > > > If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I would really appreciate > > it. > > > Hope my questions make sense. I don't really know what I'm doing, so > > could be they're a bit silly. I apologize if that's the case, and > > please let me know if you need any additional informmation. > > > Thanks, > > Shel > > you might take a look at web2py, > it can be handled quit low level, > runs perfectly on a the build python server, > and you switch to almost any database at any time > > cheers, > Stef
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