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

[Kevin Futter]

On 16/2/07 3:25 AM, "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.)

I've done something similar with widgets, FM, FX and RSS. Basically, I use
FX to write a dynamic RSS feed for news content in one of our FM databases,
and then developed a widget that simply calls it. Dashcode has a default RSS
template that worked well here.

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



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