I need some direction..

[dbfreak]

Hey there all,

I'm trying to decide if grabbing smartpill is the right thing for me to do. I have no initial knowledge of PHP but I would like to have my solution hosted online.

I have found that I will have to spend some more time learning about how to display my reports properly when viewing online. I would like the ability to print those reports and would probably like to have them come up as .pdf files.

Uploading files I also something I would like to do and I already knew I could do that with some PHP code.

I assume that with smartpill I would write that code in filemaker and say create a button to run that script and it would work when hosted because the code is already there?

Im also not sure if I should go ahead and purchase a copy of Dreamweaver to make things easier on me?

I just need a good nudge in the right direction and some suggestions on where to find the most basic information to getting a better idea of what I will need to get me started and keep me going a while.

Thanks in advance for your time, any advice will be greatly appreciated.

[JesseSFR]

dbfreak, making the jump to the web is a big step. HTML/PHP/Javascript can be quite tough. I have not used smartpill/PHP myself and personally prefer ruby on rails and RFM but I'm probably biased.

That said Uploading files and Displaying pdfs for download/pringing are both relatively easy things to do so it wouldn't be a bad place to start. With a little googling I'm sure you can find the code to complete either task quite easily.

As far as Dreamweaver goes... I would recommend against it as it tends to produce crazy complicated html that is difficult to edit yourself.

Good Luck to you!