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

[Stephen Knight]

Hi Dale,

Since you currently plan to keep the CDML backend running, it probably makes
most sense to use CDML as a starting point. IF you try to use a PHP site and
display CDML results directly, you would have to develop complex processing
scripts to transfer the CDML pages into a workable format on your PHP
server. The way I see it is - integrating PHP into CDML can be performed
with a link (with optional CDML variables dynamically included into it),
that would keep your PHP server and CDML server separate.  


In Kindness
Stephen K Knight
http://www.fmwebschool.com
800.353.7950 / 386.453.5843
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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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