Ruben Safir wrote: >Are you trying to use PHP with M? Matthew King wrote: >No, but if there was an m_php gateway that worked with GT.M, I would try >to write some reporting chores accessed by a browser.
If PHP is not a necessary component of the solution (and even if it is) then M2Web probably is or should be. (http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/) M2Web is intended as a general foundation for web enabling MUMPS applications. M2Web includes many MUMPS functions and routines for working with HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, HTTP, CGI, etc. M2Web includes a general CGI interface for GT.M that makes it easy to provide interactive web oriented MUMPS applications directly from Apache or other general web server. For instance, if you had Apache configured on Linux to run m2web.cgi in response to a relative URL such as "/m2web.cgi" or a local URL like "http://localhost/m2web.cgi"; or "http://vista/"; or "http://localhost/~vista/m2web.cgi/"; etc. and a mumps routine example.m like the following: example ;MUMPS routine with simple examples for m2web q hello1 ; no frills CGI response - SET htReturn to HTML text s htReturn="Hello World. Today is "_%DATE q hello2 ; no frills CGI response - SET multiple texts into htReturn array ; -- equivalent to hello1 -- s htReturn(1)="Hello World." s htReturn(2)="Today is "_%DATE q hello3 ; no frills CGI response - WRITE HTML text ; -- equivalent to hello2 -- d startOut^htCGI ;(start output) sends initial headers for CGI protocol w "Hello World.",! w "Today is "_%DATE,! q hello4 ; more complete HTML output with standard page title, heading, footing, etc. s htReturn=$$page^html("Hello World.",,"Today is "_%DATE) q Then to enable the subroutine hello4^example to respond to a GET request for the relative URL "/m2web.cgi/hello", you would make a CGI resource entry to map the two together. You would generally do this by filling out a simple form given by the URL "/m2web.cgi/resedit" or (for illustration) you could set that up from a MUMPS command: set ^htCGI("resource","hello","GET")="hello4^example" M2Web applications are restricted by default to require users to be logged in. To remove that restriction for this example, you would SET the "NOSEC" attribute (No Security) on the GET method of the given resource: set ^htCGI("resource","hello","GET","NOSEC")=1 To restrict the example to users with the Fileman programmer access code ("@"), SET the corresponding "ACCESS" attribute: set ^htCGI("resource","hello","GET","ACCESS")="@" There is also a "query" resource already defined that will produce a great many reports from VistA data based on simple query parameters including: dbfile - a database file identifier, a Fileman file number or file name index - a cross reference identifer such as "B" or "Name" or a composite such as Patient.Name where Patient is a cross referenced pointer field (API exposes more complex variations) find - user input pattern to match against the iteration variables of the index filter - conditional expressions based on field values in the target data records format - the name of a stored format specification or a list of field expressions in context of a target record with optional formatting attributes, such as for left/right/center alignment, field width, decimal places, etc. layout - HTML table with one row per record, captioned fields, JSON (arrays or objects), XML, XLS, or free-form explicit list of tags to apply at each level of (list, record, data element, caption, field value). There are live examples on the web site and many more can be easily constructed. --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
