Re: [Arianne-general] [Website] What is Midgard?

[Euan M. <lu...@us...>]

On 15 Jun 2001, at 0:30, x51...@fe... wrote:
> Mensaje citado por: Euan Mee <lu...@us...>:
> > And a quick intro on Midgard, what it can do, and how it
> > differs from say, Apache and tomcat?

> Midgard use Apache and MySQL to build a dinamic web site, that I
> will start to use in a better way, placing more content on the
> dinamic side.

Okay - here's my take on Midgard, after a fair amount of 
digging around the Midgard web-site...

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Midgard aims to give web developers a powerful tool for 
creating and maintaining dynamic web sites. 

It uses a traditional data-oriented approach - pages are 
generated from fragments of static html data using a powerful 
template mechanism. 

Dynamic functionality is provided by allowing the data 
fragments to contain embedded PHP scripts. 

Midgard provides database connectivity, either using normal 
PHP database connectivity or using it's own database format 
which hides the database behind a set of simple and powerful 
query and update functions. The native Midgard system is not 
the most complex or complete system of its type, but it does 
have all the functionality needed for the most widely used 
types of applications. 

Some Midgard innovations, not found in other products, are 
the style mechanism with style inheritance, page and
tree-based style elements, and the easy template system. 

Midgard combines its well-integrated template system with 
good over- the-Web management of distributed content and 
access control.
Cheers,
     Euan
xl...@us...