[FX.php List] Any experience with calling IWP from a FX page?

[Bob Patin]

John,

Well, you *could* do a workaround of sorts:

Do a FIND in PHP, write the found recordID (or a list of them) into a  
field on a temp table in FileMaker;
Then, in IWP, have it open, do a query, and use those stored IDs as  
the search values.

I don't think IWP is going to do any retrieval of session variables or  
cookies, although there might be a way with a plugin to retrieve a  
cookie from the web server. That would probably be the only way to do  
it without writing to a temp table.

I agree with Jonathan: bite the bullet, dive in, and write it all in  
PHP, which will be better in the long run anyway... :)

As someone who hosts sites and IWP databases, I'm not a big fan of  
IWP, although I do host them when clients need hosting.

Bob
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On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:20 AM, John Funk wrote:

> There are some Nice IWP features that I could use on a PHP/FX  
> generated page
> I have and it would help me with my shortcomings in PHP.
> Does anybody have any experience or comments on using IWP "screens"  
> on a
> normal PHP page? Can values be passed to FileMaker via IWP? In other  
> words
> could I show a found record when starting up IWP?
> What I would like to do, if possible, is have a URL pass the FM  
> account /
> pass and the find criteria to show the first IWP page (a company ID).
> I may be reaching but...
> Any thoughts appreciated...
> John Funk
>
>
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