[Lazarus] fpWeb & fcgi
Joost van der Sluis
joost at cnoc.nl
Sat May 14 22:14:46 CEST 2011
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 13:13 -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> On 5/9/2011 6:48 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 23:41 -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> >> I have a web type project coming up and decided to poke around in the fpWeb
> >> stuff. My, you guys have been busy, I never took a good look around the
> >> fpweb/laz web sources till today. I was thinking of using php with symfony or
> >> one of the smaller frameworks, but its a bit overkill for my project. I'm
> >> considering using fpweb/lazarus so I'm writing a small test application.
> >>
> >> I thought I saw mention of a embedded web server available? I currently have a
> >> pretty simple embedded server using synapse that is a modified version of the
> >> demo that comes with the sources. I was thinking of writing a
> >> TCustomWebApplication to use that. But I did remember somewhere in a recent
> >> thread, there was mention of an existing embedded server...?
> >
> > fppkg update
> > fppkg install embweb
> > restart Lazarus
> > In Lazarus->install packages-> select embweb-> install
> >
>
> I tried that with the latest snapshot and it spat out an AV. I guess the FPC
> 2.4.3 doesn't work for that?
On which command? It's possible to get this working on fpc 2.4.3, but I
won't bother.
> The problem is that I'm on Windows and its such a bear to setup Lazarus/FPC to
> compile from sources, at least in my limited experience in doing it.
Just download a lazarus snapshot?
> 4) What is the protocol for using a restful type url like this?
>
> http://mysite.com/module-name/function-name/var1/var2/var3
You van use 'GetNexPath' to get the next 'parameter' in the URL.
> 5) For those instances where I need to build a page or fragment of html through
> code, which unit is recommended? There seems to be some overlap between
> fcl-xml/dom_html.pp and fcl-xml/htmlelements.pp.
I always use htmlelements and the htmlwriter.
Joost.
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