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What is FoxWeb
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04/08/1998 00:22:44
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00113648
Message ID:
00123710
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12
>>>Cold Fusion is more powerful
>>>partly because is uses ODBC to connect to any back-end ie: Oracle
>>>SQL-Server, PowerBuilder as well as VFP. FoxWeb and Web Connecting
>>>look for a Fox back-end.
>>
>>Uhm... How is that more powerful? ODBC access is slower in the first place
>>than native VFP access and if you need to do ODBC to SQL or whatever then
>>any VFP based tool like Web Connection or FoxWeb can use ODBC with either
>>views or SQLPassthrough (which is all that CF provides). I'd say Fox
>>gives much better options: VFP Native, ODBC with views or SQLPassthrough.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>
>Hi Rick,
>
>I have a client that needs to maintain a Foxpro 2.6 product, at least for awhile, but would like to have web access to those files. Is there a product that allows access and update of 2.6 tables while allowing the 2.6 program to continue to operate on the same files?
>
>Thanks much for any insight you might offer,
>Nancy

You can treat the 2.6 tables as Remote data, and access them through ODBC. VFP can do this as well as any other ODBC capable DBMS.
Your options regarding internet access are wide and varied, but if you prefer VFP as your development tool, I highly recommend Rick's West-Wind Web Connection.
Erik Moore
Clientelligence
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