QuickBasic Cafe Forum

Hi.
I'm just curious.
Has anyone played with QB as a webserver script engine ?
(probably ask 'why bother' when ASP PHP CGI already exist)
[i can only answer 'because you can without having to learn another language']

It can be quite interesting although it will never catch on probably due to site security reasons.

If you run your own webserver on your PC and interested leave a message here.

So far i have only played running a script that searches a flatform .CSV database.
Pretty crude stuff but the point is, is that it is all QB

::)

;D
Well I don't know anything EXCEPT QB,but I think it's extremely valuable to people like myself... ???
Are there any?

Hi,
I nearly given up hope  ;)
Anyways to start the ball rolling you will need a webserver package, the 1 i use is from http://www.omnicron.ca/
There are better packages around but this should run out of the box.

Another thing worth having if you have a dynamic IP address is a DNS router software package ( these are free)
http://no-ip.com
http://dynu.com
There are others but they all do the same job


Caution: Running a Web Server can leave your computer open to attacks/probes from the internet so
i guess a firewall may help. XP has its own else d/l http://zonelabs.com (free)

If i have not scared anyone yet i will post back to this thread in a few days  to continue + give you time to play with the webserver package

I don't expect many people will be interested in this topic so i have started a website to act as a resource centre.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/softstuff/