[quote author="ian"]Have you considered a Beagle Board or similar? They are 3-4x more expensive that the Web Platform, but provides a robust embedded system that can (I think) run Linux with php, SQL, etc.[/quote]
Yes, I am looking at few options on cheap board and trying to balance out what can be down for how much, so that I can have a range of options.
[quote author="honken"]The microchip tcp/ip webserver supports both get and post arguments through a user supplied callback function, so yes. If you implement that other behaviour through this function. [/quote]
Whoo hoo! Great news. Thanks. I'm to read the friendly manual right now! I appreaciate the help
[quote author="Trev"]Of course you can do logical programming... you just have to write the C/asm code yourself and incorporate it into the stack's cooperative multitasking architecture without exhausting the available memory (especially RAM).
As for CGI programming, have you not looked at the Microchip stack demos? For a fairly complex example, check out the vending machine demo, but there are simpler ones.[/quote]
Thanks, Trev, I've just got excited about having a new toy. Of course, if I want Apache/Php/MySqlite I'll get an embedded Linux board. I just wanted to see how far I can push this one. I will go look at the Microchip docs as you suggest. I appreciate the feedback
The details are obscured on the back of my board. I want to use one of those universal power supplies, so I will set it to 5v, but what about inner/outer, which is + and which - ?
[quote author="CSB"]I gave Microchip's HTTPPrint solution, but found it rather cumbersome and limited, so I eschewed it for AJAX, and have had success with my project using that technique. Your mileage may vary.[/quote]
Can you tell me how you are using Ajax? Insn't that PHP at the server end (and JavaScript at the client/browser)?
I would be very interested in having some logic run based on the HTTP request received at the webserver ...
Or, thos rephrase that - what is the "webserver" capable of? Does it just serve stati HTML pages (presumably also wiith CSS)? It appears that there is no PHP interpreter.
Is there any other way of programming some CGI? For instance if the user requsts htpp://<wbplatform>/info?product=X can I some react differently based on the value of X?