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.

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.

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.

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

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.