Re: [Chicken-users] Building a web store in Chicken scheme

[Carl Douglas]

On 09/05/2012, at 05:50, Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> [120508 21:45]:
>>> I need functions like "my_sql_real_escape_string" and "htmlspecialchars" in
>>> php. I also need to know how to add ssl support (is it only configuration?).
>>> If someone is willing to help me I will be glad.
>> 
>> As for SQL there are several extensions, we call them eggs,
>> available. All of them help you building your queries and taking care
>> of escaping your variable input if necessary.
> 
> Oh, one more thing. The supported SQL database in chicken land is
> postgres. So far noone has written bindings for mysql. So if you need
> mysql support you would have to do this first.

For the record, I wrote such a binding using chicken 4.7, it is here:

https://github.com/carld/mysql-client.egg

To add it to the master eggs index I suppose it would need a wiki page and 
someone with subversion access to update the file?

Thanks,
Carl

> 
> On the other hand people that have dealt with both (I haven't) suggest
> that you should consider to switch to a real database and use postgres
> :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christian
> 
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