I will answer that from a business owners perspective (bit long but you will see where I am coming from)
When we made the change from Dreamweaver, yes there was a transition period of learning Wappler, which can be a little frustrating sometimes.
In the first instance it was myself who learnt it and it took me about a week to get used to it (and I’m still learning).
Time learning vs income…simple our productivity has increased by around 78% since using Wappler and the quality and complexity of our work is far higher than what it was previously.
I will use one of my other companies websites as an example: https://thegunnery.com.au
This site took approx 56 hours to produce from a blank page to launch. Now equate that into GP, hourly running costs vs sale price there is around a 85% profit margin in it.
If we had done that site in Dreamweaver then I can assure you that it would have taken more than 4 times longer to do.
My experience with php & java is very limited and I have always worked with DMX Extensions in Dreamweaver.
As DMX are Wappler then it was a no brainer to swap over to them and get rid of Dreamweaver (by the way cancelling Dreamweaver subscription and having Wappler is cheaper just on its own)
With regards to the hash/salting of the password a common mistake (which is the one I made) is not doing it correctly:
Remember
- Password when it is first put in the DB needs to have the hash/salt added.
- On the login the $_POST.password does NOT have the hash/salt
- In the server connect when running the login the $_POST.password gets the hash/salt applied to it then.
Trust me I scratched my head for a while when I first did that, but if you think about it logically if you hash/salt the password on the login page, then when it gets to the action of login it would be re hash/salted again giving a different value.
The one bit of advice I will give you which will help you with Wappler is think logically about the steps.
At the moment we are working on our new site for the Gunnery which also includes an integrated POS system, we are building it in Nodejs, which has been a simple thing to get used to.
Our first Nodejs site was: https://sulunarms.com.au which was around 5 hours to build (including graphics)
So as you can see, I am a massive fan of Wappler both personally and from a business point of view it is #1 out of all the systems I have used. Just another point for some reason as well all my sites done with Wappler organically work well with Google SEO as long as you structure it right.
Sometimes you just need to take a leap of faith.
Now if you decide to join the community we would welcome you and help you, if you don’t then your missing out.