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

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 09:54:07 MST 2007 

Time tracking,
project status,
yes there are several admin things to be done that is important
but does not require the full FileMaker solution to run :-)

ggt667

On 2/15/07, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> Carl,
>
> That's great! I was able to get it to work too, but not completely to
> my satisfaction yet.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> I took an HTML page and put a META-redirect in it that redirects to a
> working PHP query on my web server. Then I made sure the output,
> which displays in a table, displays the same size as the widget.
>
> The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to put this
> into a scrolling control; do you know how to do that? If so, I can
> make a query work really well.
>
> The 2nd thing I'd like to figure out is how to create records or edit
> existing records thru a widget...
>
> This would be a great thing for FileMaker consultants to be able to
> do for clients; I can think of several great uses for it.
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
> bob at longtermsolutions.com
> 615-333-6858
> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>
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>
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Carl Anderson 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
> >> Longterm Solutions
> >> bob at longtermsolutions.com
> >> 615-333-6858
> >> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
> >>
> >>    CONTACT US VIA INSTANT MESSAGING:
> >>       AIM or iChat: longterm1954
> >>       Yahoo: longterm_solutions
> >>       MSN: tech at longtermsolutions.com
> >>       ICQ: 159333060
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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