Hi Christian, I'm trying to introduce a number of people to web application development who are not programmers. I want them to be able to create a FileMaker database and, with FileMaker running, start witango and apache2 and have access to the data source. I'm trying to avoid having them to fiddle with odbc/jdbc settings.
Just simple scripts... webpages with, for the most part, simple one-to-many tables and very simple control structures. As an example, one of the groups I'm planning to support wants to make "A simple webapp to display player/team information about European football leagues". We are talking very simple control structures and queries in the taf files. We are talking simple stuff here (and not designed for major deployment). I just want them to use knowledge they have about HTML and FM databases with the Witango Dev studio to make simple web apps and understand the basics of dynamic web sites. I am told Witango used to work on PPC Macs with Witango 5.5, Apache 1.3, and FMP6 but, for some reason, I can't get it to work using (essentially) the same configuration on Intel Macs using Witango 5.5, Apache 2.2, and FMP6 (or 7 or 8). The Witango application server just doesn't seem to listen to the <Datasource> information in the taf files I'm experimenting with. It was my understanding that, if I had a 'Filemaker' datasource I could just have the database open on the same machine and, provided both apps were run by the same user (in the same user space), the taf file/witangod would use Apple Events to communicate with FMP. >From my reading of the log files witangod doesn't have any idea why it can't communicate with the FMP Datasource (and neither do I). I'm trying to figure out if witangod is even trying to send Apple Events to FMP. All witangod can report is (my questions included inline): (witangod): [Datasource] No existing connection to the data source found, creating a new connection. DSN: FMPm.#; User: ; (cpb): Is this even an attempt to connect to a FMP database through Apple Events? (witangod): [Error] -110 The specified data source cannot be found. Students (cpb): Why not? The FMP is running with the Students table open. (witangod): [Datasource] Unable to open a connection to FMPm.# due to an unknown error during connection (cpb): Unknown error.... that is not useful. Some idea of the error would be useful. Thanks, .cpb On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Christian Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Colin, what do you want FMPro to do > > or what is the Aim of your script. -- Colin Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [+15195911384] ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
