[FX.php List] dashboard widgets and fx.php

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

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On 2/15/07, Carl Anderson <Carl.Anderson at asu.edu> wrote:
> Bob:
>
> I downloaded Dashcode two days ago, and with my admittedly limited
> understanding of Ajax and whatnot, I was able to cobble together a decent
> widget that pulls data via a call to a PHP script on our server.
> (Essentially it's a Web service, but that's a different story.)
>
> Right now the PHP script is doing nothing more than spitting out
> line-by-line sets of data, but that's exactly what I want for my purposes.
> Goals for this week, and the weeks following, are to expand this to allow
> writing to a database as well as more complex formatting.
>
> (Incidentally, it should be easy to write to a database, since it's just
> like connecting to a PHP script.)
>
> --
> Carl Anderson
> Technical Support Analyst
> Distance Learning
> Herberger College of Fine Arts
> Arizona State University
> http://herbergeronline.asu.edu
>
>
> > From: Bob Patin <bob at patin.com>
> > Reply-To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:26:06 -0600
> > To: Alex Gates <alex at gandrpublishing.com>, "FX.php Discussion List"
> > <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> > Subject: Re: [FX.php List] dashboard widgets and fx.php
> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > Did you ever get this dashboard widget to work in pulling in records?
> >
> > I'd like to write a few simple widgets; I have 3 projects in mind:
> >
> > 1. I'd like to pull in simple records and display them in a table
> > inside a widget
> > 2. I'd like to be able to write to a database with a widget (long-
> > shot, I know, but one can dream...)
> >
> > To begin with though, I'd love to be able to display records; have
> > you gotten that to work? My tests so far have failed miserably...
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Bob Patin
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> >
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Alex Gates wrote:
> >> Hi everyone-
> >>
> >> I managed to get something working today that I was quite pleased
> >> with.
> >>
> >> Most of you probably know that Apple released a beta of Dashcode -
> >> the dashboard widget authoring tool that will be a part of Leopard.
> >> You can download it here:
> >> http://developer.apple.com/tools/dashcode/
> >> (this is a newer version than the Dashcode that was leaked last year.)
> >>
> >> There is a template that will allow you to make a widget from an
> >> RSS feed... you can simply enter the URL for the RSS feed and
> >> Dashcode will make everything work for you....
> >>
> >> After a few tests today I was able to display FileMaker data in a
> >> widget using fx.php
> >>
> >> I made a php file that outputs an xml file -
> >> like this:
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >> <rss version="2.0">
> >>    <channel>
> >>       <title>Web Tracker</title>
> >>
> >>       <description>My Web Tracker</description>
> >>       <language>en-us</language>
> >>
> >>
> >> <?php
> >> include_once('FX/FX.php');
> >> include_once('FX/server_data.php');
> >> include_once('FX/FMErrors.php');
> >>
> >> $lookup=new FX($serverIP,$webCompanionPort,'FMPro7');
> >> $lookup->SetDBData('dbfile.fp7','layout');
> >> $lookup->SetDBPassword('xxxxx','xxxxxx');
> >> $lookupResult=$lookup->FMFindAll();
> >> $foundResult=$lookupResult['foundCount'];
> >>
> >> ?>
> >> <?php echo "
> >>       <item>
> >> <title>Found Count:</title>
> >>
> >>          <description>".$foundResult."</description>
> >>
> >>       </item>";
> >> ?>
> >>
> >>  </channel>
> >> </rss>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> I uploaded this file and used the URL to the php page as the .xml
> >> address.  To my surprise, it worked.
> >>
> >> I know this is simply showing the foundcount, but for a beginner, I
> >> was happy.  I'm sure it would be possible to do lots of cool stuff....
> >>
> >> As far as I know, it should be possible to take the xml output from
> >> Web Publishing Engine to use for the widget... but I didn't think
> >> about this until after I had done this...
> >>
> >> I'd really be interested in hearing if any of you have made
> >> dashboard widgets from FileMaker data and how you did it..... or if
> >> you have any suggestions as to a better method...
> >>
> >> Alex
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