Francois,

how do you transmit data from apache to a vfp application and back?

>>I just got VFP 8.0. I see their is a HTML Wizard to create htm files. But I want to know is there a way to launch\run my VFP Applications *.exe on the Web live? And If so, how?
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>You cannot really run VFP application live on the WEB(:
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>The kind of application that would best qualify as vfp8 on the web would possibly vfp 5/6/7 applications modified with their database layer
>rewritten to use xml as communication interface
>(thru the new cursoradapter) instead of native or c/s data.
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>Not that easy but possible now.
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>I'd recommend you just read Rick Strahl's books on web apps with vfp. It will give you a general understanding on how the web works. And how the vfp pictures fits in. It's a bit old by current standards for IT books but it offers a deep and long-ranging on web application development. Starting from a vfp perspective.
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>Web applications such this one (the UT) are a different species. Not be compared with PC apps. Or palm-based ones by the way. Both technically and functionnally.
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>I'd recommend that you do not try to replay a pc app on the net. The web world is a totally different animal. Not PC-based. Governed by standard committes with both telecom and "open-source" as background.
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>http is not a complex protocol. html is plain trivial to start with.
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>Once you understand the way most web applications work (ie thru server-based page-transformation, cgi or improved cgi), you should be able to design clever web apps.
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>Thru MS tools or thru other ones. It is not an MS-CENTRIC world. You have a large choice. Not toolset is perfect in this world. No silver bullet.
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>For page-design the reference tool is "dreamweaver". For server construction we used foxisapi then moved to "open-source" tools (based on apache).
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>You can use ANY TOOL you want to build web apps. Take the one that fits your brain :)
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>Good luck
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>Francis