If you want to keep your VFP front end - IOW: A VFP client that installs through the windows installer, and then transact with an ASP or JavaScript web service - then it would be faily easy to read or write the data (to and from the ASP or a JavaScript ADO/XML service) - then USE VFP 8's ADO adapter to parse the data to a VFP cursor so your front end can "work" it.

Why stop there - I have built VFP foxISAPI that retrieves rows from a server DFB(s) - convert them to XML and then pass them back to the client.

You could re-use most of your data fetchers - but the transmission would require XML and HTTP (both objects are exposed in VFP and are part of the desk top). With the exception of the 2 puter internet read/write icons in the service tray blinking - your user would not know that the data was comming from a DNS.

If your patron owns the server and has posession of it - then the direct path would be foxISAPI and DBFs. If your user wants SQL - you have the ODBC.

And foxISAPI is very fast - but it requires you have custody of the server.

But VFP apps can seemlesy transact with ASP or JavaScript middle services - and the data can be contained in either an XML or ADO.

Your patron needs to consider the traffic and the life cycle costs - when you get into SQL (except the free MySQL) and NER there will be expenses often and regulary.

Try to keep as much as you can. Then, figure the pieces you'll need to replace.


>I have a desktop VFP application written in VFP 6.0 that a client has requested be transformed into a web application. The app is a glass (window) unit ordering system with a complex database of parts and options. The user's options change with each selection they make so the app requeries the database to present the user's next options based on the user's last selection.
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>Although I am a seasoned VFP developer and can learn any new development language quickly, I have no web experience and need to know where to start. How do I port a desktop application to the web? Is there a way to 'scrape' the GUI from VFP into a webpage or does it need to be rewritten in HTML? What tools would be the best to use to accomplish this? How does it all work???? Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!