Thanks Bruce, for the info. I’m not sure it is what I need as it doesn’t seem to be real time data. However, I recall now that our friend Brian Hancock had tackled this (or something similar) several years ago. He mentioned a sometime back that he has not been getting emails from the DP group so I am including him directly here.
Hi Brian, I trust all is well with you and family down under? Still waiting for you guys to come around and visit us again in SoCal. I recall you mentioned you developed a DPweb (application or interface?). Is this still workable today? Thanks, Ed. From: Dataperf [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Conrad Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 9:02 AM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] mastering DP book from R. Alvy Tony Perez and I used to use the firestorm engine (provided by Lew Bastian) for a DP backend. We switched his site over to a CMS-style backend during the summer of 2012. After that, whenever he updated his DP database, he ran a series of reports to create static HTML pages and then uploaded these to the server using FTP, using the technique Geert explains. The firestorm engine is still available ( sanbachs.net/firestorm <http://sanbachs.net/firestorm> ) but requires C coding to use. For over a decade, Tony's site ( knowmexico.com <http://knowmexico.com> ) was powered by it, without any known problems. Each kind of HTML page was generated by a different CGI program, which used firestorm to get records/fields from a copy of his DP database on the server. When he made changes to his database, he sent me a transaction log, which I then imported into the server copy his database. It even used keep-a-total to count visitors to the various pages. Best wishes, Bruce On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:17 AM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi Ed ! What a coincidence indeed that you know the Belgian coast :) I myself happen to return there sometimes, but not very often: I've been living in the south of France for the last 35 years and I have mainly 'virtual' contacts with my homeland ... even while webmastering quite of a lot of local Belgian web-sites! There is no 'online' interface for the sites I make with DP: they are instead made with a DP 'CMS'-backend, that has a series of reports to create static html-pages and a menu system on a local computer. These static pages (featherlight and valid!) are then sent to the server by FTP. The site layout is fully determined by a separate css stylesheet. I did some reading about the different 'hosted DP' solutions, but never managed to find the time to actually try them out :( Best regards, Geert. On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:45:22 +0200, Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hallo Geert, Thank you for the links. You have quite a large family! And it appears quite close knit. I think perhaps your newsletter keeps everyone close and informed. Congratulations. Very well done. This is a coincidence. My son used to spend his summers in De Haan with his Oma and Opa. When I went with them once, I really liked Ostend (with their seafood!) If you don’t mind, may I inquire how you handled the interface with DP? Thanks, Ed. From: Dataperf [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2016 1:18 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] mastering DP book from R. Alvy Hi Ed, I still have a couple of web-sites with DP backends. They're located in Belgium and the language is Flemish/Dutch. http://www.adegem.net/ : Very popular community website of a small village in Belgium. Check out the DP-made home page, the digital archives (http://www.adegem.net/archief.htm), the entire "Who's who" section and, last but not least: our weekly "Gazette" : http://www.adegem.net/nieuws/ http://www.debaets.be/ : Family website - exactly the same DP application as above, but with a different stylesheet Appeltjes van het Meetjesland : historical society. This used to be a 100% DP-site, but it's now mainly a WordPress site. Only the cross-linked indexes of the annual "Yearbooks" and the library index are still in DP, these DP-coded pages run in an I-frame : http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/indices/ ( = http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/DPoutput/jaarboek.php) http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/bibliotheek/ ( = http://www.appeltjes-meetjesland.org/DPoutput/bibliotheek.php) Regards, Geert On Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:19:06 +0200, Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Does anyone know if there is still a website running out there with a DP backend? I’m curious to know how they did the interface. Thanks, Ed. From: Dataperf [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Bruce Conrad Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 2:35 PM To: Peter Boekestijn <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] mastering DP book from R. Alvy Looks like you've since solved your problem. However, someone else was asking me about Ralph's book, and I found it for them in the Internet archives https://web.archive.org/web/20061014032117/http://dataperfect.nl/files/masteringdataperfect.pdf <https://web.archive.org/web/20061014032117/http:/dataperfect.nl/files/masteringdataperfect.pdf> Hope this might be useful to you. Best wishes, Bruce On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Peter Boekestijn <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi All, As the dataperfect site is not reachable I’m looking for another way to check some question in Alvy’s book Mastering Dataperfect. 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