[FX.php List] What to tell a customer that wants to use FM IWP vs. PHP/FX

[John Funk]

More info:
This is a mission critical system that in my opinion is patched together
with quick fixes and many badly designed relationships. His business is
manufacturing and service. Many employees are outside the building.

My customer is a do it yourselfer (non programmer) and will take shorcuts
then leave me the fallout. I am his consultant, I do want the best solution
in the long run. I want to propose a data separated model both in FileMaker
and the web interface.
I see the system as a hybrid of the three technologies but my customer wants
to make it all IWP. So I am looking for "buz phrases" to help defend my
proposal.

I know there are cases where IWP works well, but not in this case.
Thanks
John






On 10/3/08 1:25 PM, "Hank Shrier" <hank at atlasinnovation.com> wrote:

> John,
> 
> What is his business?  What kind of traffic is he expecting? What is the
> main function of the site? What does he want?  This sounds like a business
> question, not a programming question.
> 
> IWP may be a way to get up and running while you build the PHP pages.
> 
> There are a number of script steps that will not work in IWP.  Custom
> dialogue boxes comes to mind.  You also need to be very careful with
> permissions  (thanks jimmy)
> 
> It is not a good idea to allow a non professional to build mission critical
> aspects of running a business.
> 
> Take a consultation approach.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> 
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> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of John Funk
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:04 PM
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> Subject: [FX.php List] What to tell a customer that wants to use FM IWP vs
> PHP/FX
> 
> I have a Customer with a very large, 500+ layout, 50 Table, convoluted,
> complex and mostly self made database. He "discovered" Instant Web
> Publishing and now he wants to integrate some IWP pages into his solution.
> (This is like a kid in a candy store) I have been trying to sell him on the
> idea of using traditional html pages with PHP (FX) instead. I have many
> reasons why I do not want to go with IWP, but mostly because this customer
> is non technical and thinks he can just make his layouts and they will work
> just like that.
> There are already small parts of the solution that DO use PHP/FX. In the big
> picture I am working on him to let me rewrite the entire FM solution.
> 
> I am looking for bullet points that tell the reasons NOT to use IWP vs
> html/php/fx. If there are good reasons to go with IWP, list them also.
> 
> Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
> 
> John Funk
> Critical Solution
> 
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