[FX.php List] FM6 & FM8 on same page?

[Kevin Futter]

Hi everyone,

Thanks to those who tried to help out with my previous issue - I've got it
mostly sorted now. However, I do have another one, if you'll all bear with
me.

For practical reasons we've decided to migrate from FM6 to FM8
incrementally. I have a page that actually talks to two different FM
databases, one of which is the first cab of the rank for the conversion to 8
(due to its relative simplicity), and the other will be one of the last (due
to its relative complexity). I've been struggling all day to get one page to
talk to both DBs on separate v6 and v8 servers, but no luck. I've created a
second copy of FX on the server and tweaked it to work with FMSA8, and I've
called its folder "FX48". The twin-FX scenario works fine for
single-DB-per-page solutions, but they seem to override each other if I try
to talk to both on the same page. I tried wrapping the code that talks to
each db in separate functions, include files and all, in the hopes that that
would isolate them, but it seems there's something in FX (constants
perhaps?) that is permeating the function scope. Whichever function is
called first seems to instantiate values that override those of the FX
include files in the second function - if that makes sense.

Anyway, has anybody done this? Is there a way of doing it? I've thought of
maybe running getting PHP to write the results of one of the db calls to a
static file and then including that, but that seems pretty kludgy and a lot
of work.

Could I possibly just have multiple copies of the relevant FX files in one
folder (meaning only one include path), but name them differently? For
example, FX46.php & FX48.php, each tweaked for the appropriate server. Any
help or ideas here would be greatly appreciated!

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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