>>I have FPW26 system. I need to allow the user to access the database using a WEB browser.
>>I understand that VFP50 has some features which makes it easy and will like to know which is the best approach. How should I proceed? I haven't used any of the Visual versions of Fox and I'm not too clear about which components are necesary to make this happen.
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>The minimum is Visual FoxPro 3 because all the parser you'll find are 32 bits - if you use a parser. You can also access directly by using an ODBC extended HTML tags directly from the Web. You can also use socket programming to allow your existing Visual FoxPro application to get the data from the other side of the World. It depends on what you need.


Hi Michel,

I am also interested in allowing the user to retrieve data from over the web. I would like to give the user a front end VFP exe which retrieves information from our web server. "Socket programming" sounds right ! Where can I get more info on this ?

Jos