Nick Glad you asked as we too are considering just such a more. WT has served us well for nearly 10 years, as has FMP, but our site needs some freshening (rid the sob of frames and move to CSS/tables/includes) and we'd like a little more pep (and less problems with the USER-REF losses during cart-building). We have an OS-X box (dual 1.8 G5) with a mirror raid available, and already running PHP and MySQL as we're testing it as our Genealogy site (http://MyArnolds.com). Its taken nearly 400,000 hits without a burp so its ready for the e-com move.
The current site, http://onlytoys.com, is running on two OS 8.6 boxes, the FMP DB in on a dual 1.25 G4 machine while the http/tango is served from an older 400mhz Yikes machines. We use many quick links within the FMP for a backoffice management of the orders: forms for pulling orders, order review, email of order shipment, UPS and USPS labels and more. It would be hard to give up all that convenience. We'll be watching your progress and the replies with much interest as we intend to move in the 1st Q of 2006. Stephen The above was in reply to your below quoted inquiry: >There is a lot to consider here. >I would not suggest going to six. You would find it hard to buy a copy and >you would need unlimited. > >You could go right to 8 but you will need FMSA to drive it. > >You could go to 8 and use digital forest or Buddy Systems as your hosting >service they both support witango and FMP hosting. > >With FMP 7-8 you get server side ODBC > >You would want to convert your FMP stuff and to do that you are going to >need 6 to convert your 4 files then 7 or 8 to convert the 6. Or you can have >one of the Certified FMP 7 folks who have done conversions help you with the >process. > >Since 7-8 support tables you would want to get all those files into one or >two databases with multiple tables. > >There is a lot changed but all for the good in FMP and you should get good >performance for your sites. > >With the new FMP moving to MySQL or SQL 2000 down the road is a breeze if >needed. > >If you want to talk about this more give me a call. I have done several >conversion and a few FMP 7-8 witango projects that are live. > >The latest is at >www.roughtongalleries.com > > > >-- >Dan Stein >FileMaker 7 Certified Developer >Digital Software Solutions >799 Evergreen Circle >Telford PA 18969 >Land: 215-799-0192 >Cell: 610-256-2843 >Fax 413-410-9682 >FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000, MySQL, CWP >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.dss-db.com > > > "It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of models of >ourselves in which we've invested so heavily." > > > > >on 9/30/05 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > >> Chaps >> >> >> I'm just about to convert my Tango 3.5 TAFs (WebSTAR 4.5, OS 9.1, Filemaker >4) >> to 5.5 Lite running on OS X 10.3.9 and then 10.4.2 with Apache >> >> I was planning to use Filemaker 6 or Filemaker 8 but obviously have the >option >> of MySQL as well. I have 20 Filemaker databases, all very simple, that could, >> in theory, be moved over to MySQL to dump Filemaker altogether >> >> From a cursory inspection of 5.5 Lite it looks as though direct connections >to >> Filemaker are out and I need to use OBDC or something. In some ways I'd like >> dump Filemaker completely and jump to MySQL to avoid dealing with Filemaker >> and ODBC but some of my complex TAFs (there are about 50 of them) have >> thousands of references back to Filemaker fields and even with careful Search >> & Replace I would be in for some serious debugging afterwards >> >> So, to my questions: >> >> - Jump straight to MySQL? >> - setup Filemaker, figure out that ODBC thang and migrate gently to MySQL? >> - learn PHP as well and build some simple bits in PHP? >> - farm the work out to someone who knows what he's doing? >> >> I understand my site and the TAFs very well, even though it's a few years >> since I've said hello to some of them, but know nothing at all about MySQL >> >> The bigger of the two sites can wait to be relaunched in January so there's >no >> real time problem for that. The more important site has two TAFs, one >database >> >> >> Good to be back, by the way! >> >> >> Nick Froome >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >> > > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
