Re: [LHA-misc] Web interface ...

[Neil C. <nc...@ho...>]

"C. R. Bryan III" wrote:

> I wrote:
> > Since it's been raining and slowed my training down a bit (I've got a
> > 100 mile ride, tomorrow, in the rain and "boomers") I've spent a little
> > time working on a web interface to HA. This initial version uses Apache,
> > PHP, HTML, JavaScript (very little but I'm working on that) and
> > HomeDaemon-dump. I haven't started working on the security or user
> > verification yet but I will (I have examples and need to think it
> > through further). I may post the code to be played with in the next week
> > (I need the instructions).
> >
> > Anyone want to comment on what they think is a good web interface. Normally
> > I don't like web interface because they're just links and a form box. This
> > one isn't much better except that I use PHP to update the table dynamically
> > so we think we know the state of the device (it's X10 'ya know'). I'll
> > further expand the PHP/JavaScript/HTML code further to include the weather
> > station, Ocelot, and the HCS II. All of this is going into the contest
> > for Aug. Though I don't think I can win I will attempt to put on a good
> > show. I think the work can become an article for one of the magazines.
> 
> I suggest Perl for the initial effort rather than PHP.
> Perl's cross-platform. That includes Perl/Tk, which is potentially
> the same widget-set design expressed on the local desktop rather than
> in a browser, talking through sockets if the command hardware's
> running on a different machine. Perl's module set will probably allow
> you to extend down further into daemon-land for rapid prototyping.
> Perl/db supports source-level stepping of your code. Setting the -w
> switch causes Perl to dump its complaints into your Apache error-log
> when it's talking through the CGI, so you don't have to scoop them
> off a rapidly moving screen or peek into commented-out sprintfs in
> 'view page source' to catch anything.

I had a little time to think about this last night and I have a question.
Does the Apache Perl module support Perl/TK? The code I've written is an
HTML page w/PHP & JavaScript. The reason is so that part of the Client
does some of the work and the web site uses a fresh reference. I may
switch the JavaScript to Java if I'm not able to get the client to
behave the way I want it to. For now this is just the web page interface.
I have worked on client software for non web interfaces. That code is
portable between Windows and Linux (I haven't tested it else where yet).

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