User Profile for C Thomas Morrison

JaneBUILDER for PHP 1.5.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

Has lots of potential  

The first time I gave this a try, I gave up because it wasn't intuitive enough for my simple mind. However, I need to complete a project and so I went through the tutorial and all of a sudden it made sense. I was able to create a whole web site in a fraction of the time. Furthermore, the "forked" approach to code segregation made a whole lot of sense to me. The only thing I struggled with was access to form variables and arguments passed via URL's. I had not noticed the comment on the website about "register_globals." So...I 'fixed' the code and it worked flawlessly. I emailed SeeJane and quickly got a response acknowledging the issue and was notified about the ensuing version 2.0 beta that will ship this week and with that issue addressed. Things I'd like to see: 1) $25 shareware fee. I always pay this (and perhaps I'm cheap). 2) Proofread tutorial. I found a mistake or two (now I'm paranoid about what I've said). I have yet to review the other supplied documentation PDF. 3) Slight improvements to user interface to make it more intuitive. Perhaps the developers are too close to their own product. This is not a big issue, but it did cause me some confusion. 4) An upgrade of their web site (You don't see menus until you click on the Download link. You don't see the warning about "register globals" unless you're on the Buy page -- it should be on the Support and System Requirements pages.). With all this said, I can't wait for the 2.0 version and if there are any improvements, I'll gladly pay the requested shareware fee! [alert admin]

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