Saturday, July 07, 2007

Database and web capabilities

Our Run BASIC + SQLite integration is coming along nicely, and it lays the groundwork for using other databases later on (Oracle, SQL Server, MySql, etc.). One thing that we did to make using databases handy is that we built in some display technologies. You can query the database and then just use the RENDER statement to put the result on the web page. You can also inject some CSS styling right into that result, and you can even turn the line items of any column in the displayed table into links.

We also have added an httpget$() function so you can use HTTP to retrieve web documents like web pages, RSS feeds, etc. We plan to include an XML parser, and if we can come up with an easy to use way to stream through an HTML document we will provide that also.

These capabilities (except for the table rendering) will also be included in Liberty BASIC v5.0.

To keep up with what we're doing with Run BASIC, make sure to visit this blog and also http://libertybasic.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=runbasic

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I heard the release date for LB5 is November 1st. Any truth to this rumor?

Carl Gundel said...

We have not posted a release date, sorry.

Anonymous said...

were can i get tutorials for RunBasic. If i wana program an entire website like how u do that in PhP is it possible? Can we use MySql as the back end?

Kindly mail me @ yassar_232@yahoo.com