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size=2>Ryan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984385516-18112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Given
the history of Mapscript and the mapserver community, i encourage you to use PHP
as this has been most widely used. Given that you have limited experience
in development, this is probably the best choice. My personal desire is to
see a wider variety of scripting and development efforts, such as Java, VBScript
(ASP, shudder), etc - but until that day, i would suggest PHP - there are many
examples available and many of the participants in this list can
help.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984385516-18112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Ryan, Adam
[mailto:ARyan@co.linn.or.us]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 18, 2002 8:21
AM<BR><B>To:</B> mapserver-users@lists.gis.umn.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[mapserver-users] Mapscript alternatives<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Greetings.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I use a pre-compiled Win32 binary of mapserver and I've got a
pretty good handle on the CGI portion, mapserv. I figured out HTML and
javascript, but I feel limited and want to jump into Mapscript. However,
prior to using mapserver I'd never even heard of perl, python or PHP, nor have
I done any C compiling.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>My question is: What are the pros/cons of each?
How hard is it to get started (from scratch) in these things? Is one
more powerful than another? How?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Any suggestions or links would be great. Thanks for your
time.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Adam</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Linn County
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