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Suggestions integrating a SQL Backend with the Web?
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Visual FoxPro
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Internet applications
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00299833
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>Kile:
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>You have a lot of options here.
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>(1) The simpliest a most straight forward approach is to use ADO in ASP script page to run the queries and generate the return HTML.
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>(2) A more elegant approach would be to add a VFP middle tier COM component to your application. The advantage is you have the VFP runtime available for doing validation and generating XML or HTML to return to the client. This is faster and more flexible than script code.
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>(3) If you want to get into client side scripting there are ways to call methods on your COM object directly from a web page avioding round trips to the server as the page doesn't have to reload each time you refresh the data. RDS and XMLHTTP can be used for this.
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>(4) There are 3rd party frameworks available: West Wind, FoxWeb, Active FoxPro Pages and X Works.
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>Charlie


Charlie -

Thanks for all the great leads! I'll look into them, (and come back with more questions I'm sure...)

I appreciate the input!
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