Python, Forms, Databases

[Tim Parkin]

Xavier Morel wrote:
> Tempo wrote:
> 
>>Larry I do see your point. There does seem to be a lot more support for
>>PHP and MySQL together than there is Python and ASP. But I want to
>>first try to accomplish my goal by using Python first before I give up
>>and revert back to PHP. So if I was going to parse HTML forms and place
>>the data into a MySQL database, what should I use? CGI module? Zope?
>>Webware? Thanks for any and all help.
>>
> 
> If you're talking about a pair of page and nothing more, the CGI module 
> and manually handling your stuff (with a DBAPI2 MySQL module for the DB 
> link) is more than enough.
> 
> If you want to create something more complex (a full database driven 
> website), it would probably be a good idea to check some of Python's web 
> frameworks, Django for example.

Simple cgi example

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/pyBiblio/tips/wilson/basiccgi.php

or you can go the more complex route which generates, validates and
parses forms for you.

http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodNevow/FormHandling

for which you'll need twisted sumo and pollenations forms package

Here is some sample code:

http://divmod.org/trac/attachment/wiki/DivmodNevow/FormHandling/Example1.2.tac.py

Tim Parkin