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Moving From WebPy and PHP to Flask

A project log for Beaglebone Black Home Automation

A home automation box that allows you to connect any device and be controlled by any device and optimizes electricity consumption

ansaf-ahmadAnsaf Ahmad 06/23/2015 at 06:060 Comments

So after all the hard work the project was a success in my computer engineering class, got good feedback from my teacher and a lot of students from junior grades were asking about the project and how I built it and also some students are going to make a better version or a different implementation of this project next year. As I was talking to one student I realized that I made a grave mistake when I was building the web app, I used PHP. Now PHP is a nice and easy language with minimal setup and amazing documentation and resources but it's pretty awful on security and management of code. Now since I was running 2 servers (Laptop and Beaglebone), I decided to run the server on the Beaglebone and use flask to control the pins and the webapp. This will eliminate the 2 servers problem and will also make code easier to manage since Flask has a great way of running things.

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