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

[Carl Anderson]

Bob:

No, the PHP is on the server-side; nothing but JavaScript to connect to it
is contained within the widget.  Thus, it's really quite portable.  All of
the FX.php connection information (username, password, database, table,
etc.) is all in the PHP.

I'd be happy to send you the shell.  I'll contact you off-list.

-- 
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: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:54:49 -0600
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] dashboard widgets and fx.php
> 
> Carl,
> 
> Is your PHP query inside the widget itself? If so, it would make it a
> non-distributable widget, essentially, since anyone could look at the
> HTML and see the connection information.
> 
> Any chance you might want to send me the shell of what you've done?
> If so, I could then combine it with what I've done here and have a
> pretty nice little kludge, although querying the database would have
> to be done a different way I suppose.
> 
> The big concern that I have is security of the database connection
> data (username/password, etc.); that's why I ended up using a META
> tag. Any thoughts on another way to do it that didn't require
> embedding the connection information inside the widget?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
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> 
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Carl Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Gadgets are the Vista equivalent, and yes, you'd have to build two
>> (as far
>> as I know).  Our department is looking into developing for both
>> platforms.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Carl Anderson
>> Technical Support Analyst
>> Distance Learning
>> Herberger College of Fine Arts
>> Arizona State University
>> http://herbergeronline.asu.edu
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Jon Montgomery <igsmasupport at igsmasouth.org>
>>> Reply-To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:33:41 -0600
>>> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
>>> Conversation: [FX.php List] dashboard widgets and fx.php
>>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] dashboard widgets and fx.php
>>> 
>>> Are widgets only applicable to the Mac OS?  Or do Windows people
>>> use them?
>>> If so, do you have to build two versions?
>>> 
>>> Jon Montgomery
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2/15/07 10:57 AM, "Carl Anderson" <Carl.Anderson at asu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Sure, why not?  I've attached it.
>>>> 
>>>> The htaccess stuff is my hack at authentication; because the PHP
>>>> script is
>>>> on an internal server, this is necessary.  Version 1.2 will
>>>> probably have
>>>> that moved to a preference area (I'm so very new to Dashcode stuff,
>>>> obviously).
>>>> 
>>>> Also, most of the magic is done by the PHP script, with FX.php
>>>> doing the
>>>> work.  I have some of my own legerdemain that lets a user search
>>>> by any of
>>>> "firstname lastname", "lastname, firstname" or "lastname" and the
>>>> script is
>>>> smart enough to know the difference and pass the right things to
>>>> FX.php.
>>>> 
>>>> Like I said, right now all it's doing is pulling data.  Next
>>>> project is to
>>>> push data instead.  That should be fun. :)
>>> 
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