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How do i connect to a database on the internet
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Visual FoxPro
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Internet applications
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This is not an easy issue to solve. If the data sits on a Web site, that doesn't mean that you can access it from there. If you have no control over the Web site, then there will be little you can do to access the data from there.

Maybe there's some mechanism from the site to provide data in say XML format and if so then you can retrieve that data and use VFP's XML parsing tools to retrieve it.

Otherwise if you do have control of that Web site you can using some VFP based front end to get at the Access data and push it back to the client. West Wind Web Connection (mentioned by the previous reply) can actually make this process very easy because it has a built in data server and client piece that makes it very easy to publish data and consume it in a client application.

Hope this helps,

+++ Rick ---

>I have a standalone app running on a pc. I want to be able get access to a database located on a server via the internet. The database is an Microsoft Access database used by a website. How do I get access to the database from within my Fox program. I will be using a dialup connection to get access to the web. The program will add and modify data on the database located on the site.
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>Can this be done within my program? If so, how do I do this.
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>I would really appreciate help with this. This type of coding is new too me.
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>Regards,
>
>Stuart
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