creating a web style interface for VFP Apps 2

[Gordo33]

Hi everyone,<br>I was wondering what would be the best (simplest and fastest) way to come up with a web style of interface for our existing VFP apps. Basically we are experiencing dramatic delays when dealing with wide area network distributions. Two solutions that have worked are Citrix or Terminal Server, however these are a little pricey for our clients and as such we want to do a web style interface. This means that they are going to have to be able to add, edit and delete information in the foxpro dbf files as necessary. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I am currently uncertain as to how I would like to do this whether it be Perl with Apache, or some DHTML, basically we are talking a multi table database for any number of modules. Any suggestions?<br>Thanks everyone.<br>Gord.

 

[JDurbin]

If you have NT Server 4 or 2K and Visual FoxPro 6 SP3 or 4 you are set already.&nbsp;&nbsp;The easiest and fastest way would be to use ASP & or HTML and a VFP Multithreaded dll COM server.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are also a number of 3rd party products like <br>Web Connection, AFP and others and FoxISAPI which comes with VFP.&nbsp;&nbsp;It includes a sample how to insert records, change them and the like in the FoxIS project in Samples/Servers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Web or thin client is wholely transaction based, no UI - VFP forms, messageboxes, modal state of anything and no live connection to your data.&nbsp;&nbsp;An alternative is ActiveDocuments but you're clients will all need the VFP runtime files so I don't know if you want that.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let me know what you are thinking and I will try to help further. <p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>ICQ VFP ActiveList #73897253

 

[tjfox]

Make use of FOXWEB at

http://www.foxweb.com

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