>>Anyone know some good resources to learn how to hook VFP to the web? I know WW has a tool for it, but I'm not looking for something to make it easier. I'm trying to learn how to do it. I've found some ASP pages, but if they do databases, it's Access.
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>>Thanks,
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>>-Michelle
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>ASP pages (which is really not a language but an ISAPI extension to IIS that runs your web pages through the VBScript or JScript parser) 'does data' via ADO. ADO supports ODBC, so you can pretty much use any back end data that you have an ODBC driver for, including VFP files.
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>But, with ASP there are two real cons.
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>1. You have to learn a new language. (VBScript or JScript)
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>2. Your script is limited to top-down code in your ASP web page. There are a few methods to call one page from another, but any large application becomes spagettit code pretty quickly. This is also due to the fact that the I/O is all mixed in with the business logic.
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>So, actually using Web Connection would probably make things easier for you, since you would be working in a familiar environment. Yes, there are some concepts you have to learn, like stateless programming and using sessions, but, you apply those methods in VFP code, which you are familliar with.
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>BOb
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>PS: Of course, your Web server environment may eliminate WC as a choice, if your provider won't let you run it on his server.

I want to learn the 'scripts, so that's not a problem.

I'm a complete newbee at this, so what is ISAPI and ADO?

I'm sure using WC would make things easier, but I don't want to make things easier. I'm trying to learn how to do it myself. In practice, I'd probably use a tool. Why reinvent the wheel? But I want to know how the wheel works first.

As to servers, I am using the PWS on my own machine, so I can run whatever I want to run. :)

Thanks,

-Michelle