[FX.php List] Big success with Dashboard widget!

[Bob Patin]

Hello all,

I'm thrilled to say that I've managed, with a ton of help from Carl  
Anderson here on the list, to get a widget put together. Carl figured  
out how to write some Ajax to send requests to a PHP page, and I took  
the example he sent me and figured out how to write to the database  
as well.

So what I wrote is a simple Phone Log widget; you can write to the  
log, and then the log displays in a 2nd field so that you can see  
previous entries.

I've got a couple of simple improvements left to make to it, but if  
anyone is interested in writing a widget, I'd be glad to send you the  
Dashcode file and the PHP code file for this phone log. Once Carl  
walked me through the code, I started to see how it's put together,  
and I can think of lots of great uses for this, especially with clients.

One thing I'd love to figure out is how to display results in a table  
format; at this juncture, as the screenshot below shows, the data is  
returned in text strings, in a scrolling text field.

If anyone wants the widget code, let me know; Carl's agreed to make  
this available to fellow FX list members.

Best regards,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
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