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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Neat

On 1/23/07, Alex Gates <alex at gandrpublishing.com> 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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