[Year 12 Its] PHP and Software Development 2007

[Con Zymaris]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 05:49:37PM +1000, Ken Griffiths wrote:
> I'd like to know what teachers who currently use PHP in Information Systems 
> plan to do for u3o2 and u4o1 in 2007 in Software Development. [After 
> today's VITTA sessions this is a good time to talk about this]
> 
> The u3o2 requirement "to produce a software module suitable for 
> implementation on a portable computing device"  seems not appropriate for 
> PHP.  But if you choose to use PHP for u4o1, how would you link the 
> preceding task?
> The intention of the study design would seem to encourage , for example, a 
> client/server relationship. But my first two thoughts for the client side - 
> ActionScript and Javascript - are not on the approved list.
> 
> Any thoughts from PHP enthusiasts?

You don't need to go through a remote web server (and thus instantiate
an n-tier model) to build apps with PHP. You can build those apps so
that they run directly on the local unit itself through either a local
web server or even via local PHP command invocation. 

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