[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[ABorka]

On 5/7/2010 12:19, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>> All web pages are using the fpTemplate unit to generate the HTML responses.
>> The web design layer this way is totally separated from the server
>> programming side. The HTML people can beautify their pages as they like
>> while using the available HTML tags provided on the server side to display
>> live data from the databases.
>> You can find some basic examples on using the fpTemplate unit and template
>> tags under the Lazarus directory
>>
>> /lazarus/components/fpweb/demo/fptemplate/
>>
>>
>> Works like a charm.
>
> Thanks for your example. I will see the fpTemplate unit.
> What about the server app. Do you use CGI, FastCGI... some libs or
> frameworks? Everyone talk about PWU.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Marcos Douglas

The server side was an Apache mod but now it is simply CGI. We did not 
see any speed increase/decrease for the visitor traffic volume we have 
in either case.

We might do it FCGI in the future, but it does not seem to be working on 
Windows (it was a few months ago so I do not exactly remember what was 
the problem, but I think it was something like many FCGI app instances 
got spawned and dragged the CPU like crazy all the time even between 
requests), so we probably need to move to Linux for the server 
development in case we try to do this again.

No frameworks or libs were used, it is a normal website with screens, 
reports, etc., people need to click on things to get new content.
The request goes to the web server and an HTML page is generated using a 
template, replacing the template-tags with content from files/databases, 
etc.

AB