Absolutely, Dave.
PROJECTS
We are a research center for
Environmental Health Sciences
under the
School of Public Health. The projects are mostly
secure, web-based forms and reports as well as some client
applications. Ideally, we would like to have all of our applications
web-based. Examples of common projects we have are:
- generation of letters, forms, etc for mass mailing
- dynamic reports in which one can enter criteria for selection
(e.g., date range, month, year, group, etc.) and select multiple
sorting
- LOTS of data entry applications
We're starting to create open-source applications that can be shared
with other study centers.
DATABASE
We use both MySQL and MSSQL, depending on the study although we
would like to move to MySQL for all.
USERS
We're almost done with converting to Active Directory(AD) so that
would be our means of authenticating users. Everyone who needs access
our secure site -- that's most of our users -- must have an AD account.
OTHERS
Also, we've recently been building web applications in Groovy and
Grails.
Does this help?
David Peterson wrote:
Hi Simone:
Could you be a bit more specific with the scope of your project? The
framework to chose would depend upon what exactly you are trying to
accomplish.
Thanks,
Dave
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Simone Q.
Vuong
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Has anyone explored using
PHP
with a framework -- I'm
considering the
Yii framework for PHP -- and/or
Ruby on
Rails?
Could you tell me:
- what you are using it for,
- your pros and cons for using either,
- easy of use,
- the availability of resources for learning and
trouble-shooting,
- references you highly recommend, and
- anything else you find relevant.
Thank you kindly.
Simone Vuong
Health Studies Section
--
David Peterson
IT Professional
Office of Institutional Research
University of Minnesota
http://www.oir.umn.edu
612-625-0914
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