[FX.php List] CDML and FX.PHP Mashup

[DC]

http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=SmartyFilemakerPro

basically the idea is to use PHP to dynamically write CDML format  
files to where ever FMP thinks they are. you then build the old style  
CDML URL and then you use file_get_contents() to get the output from  
old FMP.

dan

On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have an ancient CDML site that began life on v4.1 many years ago,  
> and has made its way up to FMUv6. I have been sticking band-aids on  
> it for several years while I moved my new development to PHP and my  
> client ponders conversion of this old system.
>
> My client has now asked me to do some things that would be pretty  
> easy with FX.PHP and not-so easy with CDML. I would prefer not to  
> spend extra time and more of my client's money to code this in an  
> obsolete environment, so I'm contemplating ways to graft on this  
> new capability with PHP while keeping the bulk of the site in CDML.  
> If I keep on this track, maybe one day all the CDML will have been  
> replaced.
>
> So, any advice on the wisdom of a CDML-FX.PHP mashup? I'm trying to  
> come to grips with how to work with both on the same page,  
> considering that CDML has FMP acting pretty much as its own web  
> server/cgi and PHP is going to have to work with Apache. What works  
> better? PHP pages with mini-CDML calls or the other way around?
>
> Thanks,
> Dale Bengston
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