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Subject: Re: [OM] (was) colour management now PHP etc
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:12:49 +0200
First time I've heard VueScan described as user-friendly!

On 15/10/2011, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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