As I mentioned in an earlier response, I hope to get away from a Windows

server. I have had some experience with Postger and a bit less with MySQL

and understand that there are tools to convert DBFs to SQL.

Thanks for the suggestions on PHP and Python. This is

the recommendations I am hunting for.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland <mike@ggisoft.com> wrote:

> I would use MySQL (or Postgre) and PHP on the server. Of course that

> presumes that you're on a server that you have access/control of and can

> install MySQL + PHP (or use a company that provides such services.) Also,

> there's going to be a slight difference depending on whether the server is

> Windoze or Linux...my preference is Linux. I'm guessing that if you've been

> running FoxWeb, you're on a Windows server (and PHP will install and run on

> a Windows box.)

>

> Anyway, PHP is not that hard to learn and way powerful, very well

> supported.

>

> I'm sure others on the list would recommend Python, and I would join them

> in that recommendation, but I have no experience (yet) with Python.

>

> Regardless of where you go and what you do, moving away from the DBF file

> storage is a wise decision.

>

> Mike

>

>

> -------- Original Message --------

> Subject: (NF) for HTML

> From: G Gambill <gwgambill@gmail.com>

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Date: 12/7/2012 4:43 PM

>

>> I am looking to move away from a VFP/FoxWeb solution for new (and maybe

>> old) web pages projects.

>>

>> I am looking for suggestions for converting existing VFP tables to some

>> flavor of SQL and a quick learn language to support presenting the data to

>> an HTML page.

>>

>> Any suggestions?

>>

>> George

>>

>

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