RealWeb

RealWeb allows DataBasic programmers to write subroutines that can be called from a web browser to generate web pages containing data extracted from a Reality database.

RealWeb provides the web developer with access to data held in a Reality database, by making it possible to call a DataBasic subroutine directly from a web browser by simply specifying a URL. An URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, a web address.

Subroutines that will be called from RealWeb must be specially written using the supplied DataBasic API - this allows the programmer to fetch arguments passed to RealWeb, and to construct a web page that is returned for display in the browser. Alternatively, complete web pages and images can be retrieved from a database.

By using an HTML form, information entered by the user can be included in the URL and passed as arguments to a Reality subroutine. These arguments can be used in various ways, for example, to construct queries or to update the database.