>All assuming it's running on windows. What if the vfp data is housed on an apache server. Is there some kind of ODBC that can be used then?


Hullo Mike -
you'll need to use some kind o scripting language with Apache to
get to the VFP data,
and that scripting language will have to understand VFP, either natively or via some os extensions [odbc, low level, etc etc] .

So, for example, if you are using php for your scripting language
for your apache server, you can get to the vfp data natively
on your apache server
utilizing the adodb layer that i mentioned previously in this post, which, for wintel apache servers, will utilize an odbc connection.

There are other ways to do this - I've done some benchmark testing in my lab with Active FoxPro Pages and apache - they play well together.

but ? there are other scripting languages that work well with apache ..
perl has a few ways to get to vfp/fp/xbase data as well.

If your apache server is not a windows box, then you can utilize unixodbc drivers to either read it natively, or bridge across to a wintel box holding the vfp tables.
[as an aside]
Basically i got started with this a few years back with WAMP, then extended it to LAMP stuff, then when XRMS came up and required the adodb layer, I did some other testing / coding to make a WAFP server that I could use with XRMS to hit VFP data. it works, but i've no time to really deploy it these days as WAFP for my XRMS instance - and I'll be sticking to WAMP/LAMP for XRMS. There's more than one way to get to VFP data with apache, though - not just with the adodb extensions.

regards [Bill]