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

[Bob Patin]

I've been working on widgets some more, and have taken it a bit  
farther now; I've got 3 widgets written, 2 of which are finished:

The first one reads from a database and returns the records in a  
scrollable list. In addition, you can write to the database (it's a  
phone log).

The 2nd is for querying a database; I have 3 fields: one for  
username, one for password, and one for the query. The PHP receives  
the 3 strings, and assuming the username/password pair are legit,  
performs a query and returns the results.

The only thing I haven't done yet, and which Carl said he's made  
headway with, is to return results into a table of set of DIV  
elements. With that, I'll be able to edit returned records as well...

The 3rd widget is a work log widget; it still needs the ability to  
edit log entries, but other than that is working great.

Bob Patin
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On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> 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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