Dami — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:51:11 +0000

JSP in their secure areas for giving customers access to their records.

andy206uk — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:50:33 +0000

Stupid people... you should try and explain to them that pulling acronyms out of a hat won't yield good results. They need a proper plan of action. Includes and breadcrumbs could all be handled from php. Theres no point using two different technologies when one will do the job better.

BTW... javascript and JSP(JavaServer Pages) are two different technologies. Which are they wanting to use?

Dami — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:42:33 +0000

They're wanting static pages and SSI and jsp in the secure areas.

andy206uk — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:09:00 +0000

Well if he really wants to spend buckets of money use ASP instead. Any server-side technology will be better than client-side.

Dami — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:22:34 +0000

You're preaching that one to the choir. Manager doesn't like (read: understand) open source.

andy206uk — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:07:57 +0000

Why are your tech guys against PHP? if they know anything about web technologies they'll know that a serverside solution will always be more reliable than a client side solution:

a) will always work in ALL browsers
b) cannot be disabled by the user
c) more accessable (screen readers struggle with javascript)

Dami — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:42:03 +0000

Thanks. I found the PHP version, but couldn't find the JS version. I'm having a tough time convincing our tech guys to go with PHP on our site.

Never mind, I just found the js version!

Renegade — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:59:02 +0000

It can be done with Javascript or with PHP

Dami — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:54:59 +0000

No, I won't be using a db. Just static pages.

Suzanne — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:48:17 +0000

Are you using a database to serve the pages?

For the file structure, the more "human" you can be, the better.

e.g.
home -> services - > Page Title is better than
00 -> 001 -> file name

I've also done it where I wasn't able to do anything other than includes so there was a huge file with every single page in it -- if this page, print this breadcrumb. Very annoying and tedious.