Scott wrote
>
> The original of WAMP and MAMP is LAMP (Linux, etc. as the others). Set up
> of a LAMP server is pretty near a no-brainer. In fact, it's pretty much a
> single-selection option in many distributions of Linux. There is
> extensive, on-line, freely available documentation of the process.
>
> Having set up a WAMP system myself in the past, I'd stay far, far away....
>
> I don't believe that I've got a copy of the PHP & MySQL book, but my
> suspicion is that it was likely written for the LAMP environment. It's
> certainly where it would make most sense to have done, and be most
> profitable.
>
> All that said, however, if the goal is to construct a viable web-site and
> gallery, why reinvent the wheel? Many near-turn-key, free, web-site and
> gallery packages exist. Just set up a LAMP machine (cheap!), download the
> appropriate software, and you're (almost) good to go. Just know from the
> outset that most of such software was NOT designed for either the WAMP or
> MAMP environments, where software-for-fee is the rule. While lots of such
> packages can be made to run under those two derivative environments, it's
> a significant amount of work that requires the ability to leave one's
> comfort zone quite some distance behind. I can state categorically that it
> was NOT fun.
>
> There are so many alternatives available ready-made any more that much of
> it approaches appliance status. But not generally in the WAMP and MAMP
> arena.
>
>
>
> > A well-integrated program to set up a Php & MySql & Apache system would
> > be fantastic. My impression so far is that what's available is
> > disjointed / incoherent, and the experts do not have a concise & precise
> > way of fixing it.
I've just had another look at the WAMP site. They claim to have it well
integrated now; but for the moment at least I can't afford to concentrate my
thoughts for a week to get is going.
I had a look again at the documentation for the version I installed about a
year ago, and the instructions come to about 270 KB of text, and involve so
many if's, but's and other pages I need to download and think through that I
don't think I want to take 6 months out of my life for that purpose
I think about programs such as Irfanview, FastStone Image Viewer,
Vuescan and MYOB (Mind Your Own Business ( Accounting)), which
integrate processes and functions hugely more complex ( in my humble
opinion) than what LAMP, WAMP etc intend, and achieve it in such a way
that a very integrated and user-friendly interface is provided.
All I want is a program which will let visitors view my images in a
database/store, choose any for purchase, let me know so that I can arrange
trading, and/or make a purchase on line (which would ultimately come to me
for action).. A program that I can integrate with my existing web-pages.
Is that so very difficult? Am I looking for the wrong kind of program?
I'm also a member of the
NZ Institute of Forestry ( http://www.forestry.org.nz/ ) the site of which has
recently undergone a huge re-programming with zones needing express
permissions to enter etc (which surely use look-up lists that ought to be easy
to program). I suspect but don't know, that the commercial web-page writers
who did this use php. Their code does mention cyberglue
http://www.cyberglue.com/, which is about managing memberships and
customers.
Brian Swale.
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