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Website advice
Gdiguy
San Diego, CARegistered User regular
San Diego, CARegistered User regular
Hey everyone,
I need to construct a website that allows the following things:
1) User pastes in or uploads a file containing a list of IDs and hits submit
2) server performs calculations based on this list (basically overlap with lists of IDs stored in a "database" which can also just be a flat file on the server, the stored list won't change based on user input)
3) new page is created that shows summary data / images / etc based on the calculations
I do a lot of stuff in perl (and other languages like Matlab that are pretty useless for this task), but I haven't done html/websites since.. probably 2001? So I'm a bit out of the loop - should I be looking at rewriting this stuff in javascript? Can I just have the site call a perl script on the webserver and just have those scripts auto-generate an html file? Other suggestions?
Any and all advice is appreciated
I need to construct a website that allows the following things:
1) User pastes in or uploads a file containing a list of IDs and hits submit
2) server performs calculations based on this list (basically overlap with lists of IDs stored in a "database" which can also just be a flat file on the server, the stored list won't change based on user input)
3) new page is created that shows summary data / images / etc based on the calculations
I do a lot of stuff in perl (and other languages like Matlab that are pretty useless for this task), but I haven't done html/websites since.. probably 2001? So I'm a bit out of the loop - should I be looking at rewriting this stuff in javascript? Can I just have the site call a perl script on the webserver and just have those scripts auto-generate an html file? Other suggestions?
Any and all advice is appreciated
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Is basically what you'll be building, though nowadays a lot of the more technical fiddly bits are handled by using a framework. Depending on how much initial effort you want to put into this, you could do it in Perl, PHP, Ruby/Rails, or Python/Django. All of them would look very familiar with your Perl experience, but due to the frameworks you'd be using Ruby/Python would require the most up front learning, but would also result in the cleanest, easiest to migrate/update piece of software.