DMCGI on Windows

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Dec 13 2009, 6:57 pm
Nadrew asked the question here: http://www.byond.com/members/ DMCGI?command=view_post&post=83641 on 10/11/09 "Do you want DMCGI on windows?" 17 v 6 said Yes.
The reason I myself would like to see it is for those people (Like myself) who use Windows for just about everything (especially) Gaming. Most users cannot afford to rent linux servers on a monthly/yearly basis no matter how low of the cost, and have no experience working with linux at all. Which eliminates the potential for it to grow as it could.
#1 Dec 13 2009, 7:05 pm
DMCGI is dead. Just learn PHP.

I'm not a staff member, I'm just reiterating what others have said and speak from my own personal experiences. Tom and Lummox have more important things than DMCGI, and though Nadrew points that it wouldn't be a huge deal to get DMCGI on windows, there's not much of a point- when something breaks, it's not going to get fixed, and suddenly the web app you spent 2 months writing doesn't work anymore and never will.
#2 Dec 13 2009, 7:27 pm
In response to Airjoe (#1)
Airjoe wrote:
DMCGI is dead. Just learn PHP.

I already know PHP, That's not the point I'm trying to make.
#3 Dec 13 2009, 7:29 pm
In response to Inuyashaisbest (#2)
Then let me rephrase: just use PHP.
#4 Dec 14 2009, 1:55 am
In response to Airjoe (#1)
Airjoe wrote:
DMCGI is dead. Just learn PHP.
(...)Tom and Lummox have more important things than DMCGI

Though I'd much agree on the advantages of PHP, the younger crowed around here already has trouble handling DM (properly), which means PHP seems a bit out of reach. Not to mention that learning PHP is not an 'over night experience'.
Another point is, that there is (like was mentioned in the poll's comment section) no possible interaction between PHP and DM (without running DMCGI) right now.
Yet, the automatic use of BYOND's key system is too valuable to simply throw it away (in my eyes).

All in all, I'd rate it as low priority, but nice to see feature and prefer a decent PHP interaction with BYOND instead (which likely would require more work though).
#5 Dec 14 2009, 2:40 am
In response to Airjoe (#3)
Airjoe wrote:
Then let me rephrase: just use PHP.
I've taken a liking to the django framework recently..
#6 Dec 14 2009, 4:22 am
In response to Schnitzelnagler (#4)
Schnitzelnagler wrote:
Yet, the automatic use of BYOND's key system is too valuable to simply throw it away (in my eyes).

All in all, I'd rate it as low priority, but nice to see feature and prefer a decent PHP interaction with BYOND instead (which likely would require more work though).

Agreed; you can't just throw that away, though most people don't see it as useful, some people (cough) do like being able to load a website with someones key, because it can be a really great interaction with a game if you're going to check up on some data stored in a mysql database.
#7 Dec 14 2009, 5:26 am
Over the years of being "the best at DMCGI" I've realized that DMCGI is indeed rather useless when compared to other web languages like Perl and PHP.

Literally the only valid usage of DMCGI is key authentication, to be passed on to another language (using cookies). Outside of that DMCGI is rather clunky and slow when put up against other languages that do similar things.