>I am interested in finding out some information about using VFP 6.0 with the web. I have a web page on geocities.com (a free web page hosting service) that lists several hundred names and addresses. I have to keep the information updated manually currently.
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>I would love to put a VFP 6.0 database out there and allow them to add/update their own info and have it live.
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>I would appreciate any feedback on this subject . . . I haven't used VFP with the web and would like to know the requirements of doing so and whether or not I can use VFP databases or tables without having my own web server . . . . and if so - what I need to do to get started.
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>Thanks in advance
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>James

I would suggest you check Rick Strahl's web site for using VFP on the Web
(http://www.west-wind.com). He "wrote the book" so to speak on this topic. As far as Geocities goes they do not allow any server side processing (at least for their free hosting service). That rules out using VFP, java, etc. to extract data from a database or to allow updating from a client/server perspective. I'm not aware of any free hosting services that do but I would love to find one. There are plenty of hosting services that are not free that do allow VFP/VB COM, ASP, JAVA, etc. on the server as well as provide a host of ODBC drivers for data access.