RE: The web, where to start?

Actually, the first eRPG book assumes you don't know much HTML at all and
has a chapter specifically for learing the basics of that. There is so much
free information on the web for HTML that it's enough to get your feet wet
so you know where to look for more information.

It also covers the APIs used for CGI programming and includes some simple
ILE wrappers for them. The only downfall now is that it's based on the
Classic HTTP server, not apache, but I'm happy to help with conversions for
that. You can view examples that are included in any of my books at
www.bvstools.com/erpg/. all these examples are exactly the same ones from
my books.... (the first book doesn't have examples, but the eRPG v2 and
CGIDEV2 bok and RPg Web skill Accellerator do).

The 2nd eRPG book takes everthing a step futher. But my RPG Web Skills
Accellerator from Lab400.com actually has the info from both books in a more
"lab type" structure, which some find easier to work with.

with anyone starting out I personally don't suggest starting with a toolkit.
I think of it like learning how things work, then once you understand how
things work then a toolkit makes sense as you'll know what to look for in a
toolkit and know how it will help.

Feel free to contact me offline as well.. happy to help. I do answer my
emails! :)

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

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Subject: Re: The web, where to start?


I believe the books are called eRPG and are written by Brad
Stone. I haven't
read the second one, but the first one was really easy to get started. And
you just need to know RPG and HTML.

On Dec 21, 2007 3:51 PM, Kelley <kshaddrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd like to create a fairly simple sales application that displays sales
information on a web page. All of the data is resident on an iSeries.
There
seem to be so many ways of doing it, well, it boggles the mind.

Where is a

good place to start? Keep in mind that I am a long time RPG

coder, I don't

know C/C++, Java, and so on. I can hold my own in VB.net. It's

been years

since I've created any webpages or worked with the HTML servers on the
iSeries. Point me to a good book or example or website or ? and I'll be
good
to go.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas!

Kelley


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