[REBOL] Re: [books] Pre-release of Chapter 5 of Rebol - A programmer's guide
From: tim-johnsons::web::com at: 2-Jul-2008 11:02
On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Peter W A Wood wrote:
> Tim
Thanks.
> I'd say about 30% of the chapter relates to /Command, another 40% to
> IOS and the remainder to /Core and /View.
Understood.
FYI: I only use /core because of my company's GPL/Open Source
mission. Have said that .....
> The main topics relevant to the free versions are using MySQL from CGi
> with Doc Kimbel's excellent MySQL scheme and
I've been using mysql-protocol (Mysql Scheme) and cgi for many years now. I
really like it, but I think that /command would bring some advantages, if
it can directly access the "C" API for MySQL.
Example: Using the mysql scheme on a tcp/ip connection, I have to code
the escaping of special characters for insert and updates and code the
unescaping of special characters for retrieval.
Using the C API from other scripting languages, the mysql_real_escape_string()
function handles the escaping _appropriate_ to the version, and
queries are similarly unescaped.
If command can do the same, that might be an advantage over the mysql scheme
protocol.
Tim
