what about ASP and FileMaker?

[janedoe]

hi,

so, can you get ASP and filemaker to talk to each other in pro 6 or pro 7?

seems to be a lot of topics about other web programming languages, but i couldn't see much on ASP.

any tips would be appreciated,

jd.

[janedoe]

hello,

i've been searching the forums some more and i found some posts relating to ASP...

it seems ASP via ODBC is slow...

i could try using an ASP class...

or using another programming language...

what do you suggest? what works best for you?

thx,

d.

[BrentHedden]

Having ASP talk to filemaker is possible with the use of ODBC. But yes, it is slow, so only small applications would be considered.

Unfortunately, I have found no other way of making ASP run with FM. There seems to be little if no help available ANYwhere for this, probably since ASP is a Microsoft product, and people want to use ASP with other Microsoft products (Access for instance).

PHP seems to be the "hot" server-side web language to be with. There are plenty of people who have done so, and there is already a PHP class (FX.php) written to integrate specifically wil FM. Check out http://www.iviking.org/ for more info.

[Garry Claridge]

You should be able to use ASP the same way as you use PHP. That is, query the database with a URL or Form than handle the returned XML.

Good Luck.

Garry

[janedoe]

hi,

thanks for the replies. i'd heard of fx.php, i guess i'll give it a go and add PHP to my skill set

jd.