Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] DBIs & FileMaker Pro

Given the system, you can use Perl, Applescript, Frontier, Filemaker, 
Tango or Lasso (I assume you will need old versions of the latter two).

Of the first three alternatives only Frontier can run multithreaded 
which is important if you expect more than little traffic.

Filemaker's own web companion might be a good alternative as the others 
use appleevents to talk to the DB and each appleevent takes about 0.25 
sec of that system, there are (were?) lots of guides to stuff as much 
as possible into a single appleevent.

torsdagen den 3 april 2003 kl 09.46 skrev Claire Hector:

> Hello,
> I have been asked to develop an intranet site that communicates with a
> DB.
> The server this site will reside on is Mac and since I have NO
> experience with Mac OS I would really appreciate some expert help!
>
> I have used Perl on Win32 platforms with DBI to access (predominantly)
> Oracle DBs.
> I have also done a lot of work with PHP, however from what I can find
> PHP is not compatible with the OS the server is running.
>
>> From info on the net I was leaning toward MacPerl & DBI to find a
> solution however I'm still not 100% sure if this will work on the
> system, I have seen Andrew Witney's DBI/DBD proxies article on Chris
> Nandor's page but am not sure if this is the best solution. If anyone 
> is
> able to tell me what libraries & driver combinations are needed, if it
> is even possible with this system, or where to look I would REALLY
> appreciate it.
>
> Since the system is so old I'm having trouble finding info, and alot of
> the pages I've been too have lots of broken links :( as they were
> written years ago.
>
> The system is as follows
> MacOS 7.5.1
> DB: FileMaker Pro 4.0
> WebStar v2.0
> This is a Japanese system
>
> Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated!!
> Regards,
> Claire
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Claire Hector
> Matsushita Electric Works Ltd.
> Quality Management System Group
> http://www.mew.co.jp/
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>
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Solvare - http://www.solvare.com/


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