Re: PHP and an unsupported DB

>If it's a pretty well defined C API it shouldn't be that hard. Also you can >go through ODBC to get to your FileMaker Pro DB. You can go through ODBC, but if want to do anything serious you better be ready for a serious wait. I don't have much of a C/C++ background. But, it's a php latch into FMP would help me immensely, so I'm trying to get an idea of the amount of time, thus how much it would cost to hire someone to do the work. Since I have done a little another option --in those <sarcasm>huge swaths of free time</sarcasm>-- is to try and make it make myself with a little help here and there from other people. I do have a fair handle on the basic technical situation in communicating with FMP and the why of Mac-only. The best way to communicate with FMP is with Apple Events. It's a way of firing events from one process to another and it's supported by almost every good ap for the Mac platform. What's encoded in the apple events --to FMP-- isn't SQL but something fairly similar. Essentially what's needed is a way to package the commands and fire them across to another machine --presumably using the AppleTalk protocol. One possibility is to create a mac-specific client to be installed on the target machine and act as a liason between FMP and PHP. From what C/C++ programming I've done it sounds very doable... Tim Wood __________________________________________________________________ poetry is an hour a flash of sound bytes found rescued boiled freed to rage again