--- Dominic Steinitz wrote: [snip]

The original code was in PHP and MySQL so rather than re-invent the wheel I [snip] So my question is: what should I do to re-write this in Haskell?

I haven't tried it out, but I found this project on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/functional-php/ on to the Haskell stuff...

From the discussion on this mailing list in June and reading through the libraries section of haskell.org, I think there are the following options:

HTML

1. Use Wash/CGI but maybe somehow move to mod_haskell if the webserver performance isn't adquate.

HaXml could also be quite useful for generating HTML or XML: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/HaXml/

SQL

2. Use MySQL-HS which requires HaskellDirect or use HSQL.

I'd be very grateful for any advice and any progress as a result of the discussion in June.

Ashley Yakeley has an interface to MySQL: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/hbase/Source/Foreign/ and I was thinking of extending the DBI model as found in Perl and the libpq binding as listed on Haskell.org: http://www.astercity.net/~khaliff/haskell/dbi/dbi.tgz Searching Freshmeat and SourceForge for Haskell turns up a few things. Actually, there's quite a bit of alpha and beta Haskell code out on the net, but we don't seem to get very far with much of it... ===== Christopher Milton cmiltonperl@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com