[FX.php List] Why not convert from CDML to fx.php?

Mon May 14 07:29:58 MDT 2007

You may want to check out BlackBelt this allows you to use CDML with
FileMaker 7 and 8 as well as PHP.  This way you can slowly migrate to PHP
and continue using CDML.

http://www.fmwebschool.com/blackbelt.php

I hope this is helpful 

In Kindness
Stephen K Knight
http://www.fmwebschool.com
800.353.7950 / 386.453.5843
FMWebschool, we bring the web to life 
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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Gjermund Gusland
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Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Why not convert from CDML to fx.php?

Hmm, I have proposed to anyone who have time to help me write CDML support
into FX.php, for legacy purposes, to contact me.

ggt667

On 5/14/07, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at cayre.dk> wrote:
>
> Den 14/05/2007 kl. 4.17 skrev Jonathan Schwartz:
>
> > Dale,
> >
> > THANK YOU for explaining that, because it addresses the eternal 
> > mystery question of whether the Web Companion was providing the web 
> > serving or another web server was (apache/IIS).
> >
> > In all my FMP6U/fx.php installations, I used Apache as a web server. 
> > Everything worked fine.  You guys helped me through it back in 2005. 
> > ;-)
> >
> > Then, I ran into a different account using FMP6UL/CDML (Mac) that 
> > had no third party web server. Now I understand that the Web 
> > Companion is providing the web serving.
> >
> > Back to the FileMaker Web Server Connector (FM-WSC) for this problem 
> > client...
> >
> > - Platform is Windows.
> > - FMPis FMP5.5UL
> > - Using IIS as a web server
> > - Using FMP-WSC.
> > - Pages are in CDML.
> >
> > Based on this, do they NEED to use WSC?
>
> Yes, as I understand Dales explanation...
>
> To get rid of FMP-WSC you have two options:
> 1. Stop using IIS (use the Web Companion instead. *NOT* recommended) 
> 2. Convert to PHP with FX.php (...recommended!)
>
> > If they upgrade to FMP6UL, do they need to use WSC?
>
> Yes, same choice
>
> > Where the heck is the setting which determines if WSC on/off or in 
> > the loop at all?
>
> WSC is the software installed in the 3rd party webserver which talks 
> to FMPU
>
>
> /Erik
>
> > Thx,
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> > At 8:40 PM -0500 5/13/07, Dale Bengston wrote:
> >> Web Companion is a FileMaker extension. The FileMaker Web Server 
> >> Connector (FM-WSC) is a separate install that connects one's web 
> >> server (in my case Apache) to FMP. The FM-WSC was primarily 
> >> intended to be a tool for implementing RAICs and load balancing, 
> >> allowing a web server to communicate with more than one FMU logged 
> >> into the same set of databases. The FM-WSC would round-robin 
> >> contact its set of established FMUs, in a pretty-lame scheme for 
> >> load balancing. If you didn't want FMU to be your web server, and 
> >> have it sit behind a "real" web server like IIS or Apache, you had 
> >> to use the FM-WSC to get it to work - even with one FMU (no load 
> >> balancing).
> >>
> >> One of the most attractive things about FX.PHP when I started using 
> >> it in 2003 was, no FM-WSC necessary!
> >>
> >> It behooves you to make sure you have the latest updater, even 
> >> though that doesn't guarantee perpetual uptime, as John May points 
> >> out. on the Mac, there is a separate updater for the Web Companion
> >> (6.0v3) and for FMU (6.0v4).
> >>
> >> So, if you're using FMU, even with FX.PHP, you're using the Web 
> >> Companion. The FM-WSC is an optional install. If you haven't 
> >> installed it, and everything works, then you're off the hook.
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> On May 13, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have never seen the mention of "Web Connector" in combination 
> >>> with FileMaker Pro 6 Unlimited, even though I started out using 
> >>> FMP6UL to web publish fx.php before moving to FMP8SA. Both Mac.
> >>>
> >>> I do have a Web Companion and a Web Companion Enabler in the 
> >>> Extensions folder of FMP6UL/Mac...but no Web Connector.
> >>>
> >>> Did Web Connector get retired in FMP6UL?
> >>>
> >>> J
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> At 9:18 AM +1000 5/14/07, Kevin Futter wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> That was our experience too, and we never bothered with the WSC.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Kevin Futter
> >>>> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> >>>> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
> >>>
> >>> --
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