Mixing Progress code with PHP.

Anon

I'm not sure how best to phrase my question, so I'll just start writing... :-)

I'm a relative newbie to PHP.

I'm working with a Progress database and can successfully access data via straight HTML. The cgi-script that I'm parsing through recognizes the "difference" between Progress code and HTML, because I place the HTML into an output stream [{&out}]. This allows me to code the HTML directly into a Progress program [.p file].

My question is:

How do I accomplish the same thing with PHP?

When I place PHP in the Progress program, the server doesn't know that it's PHP, so it doesn't attempt to parse the code. The PHP is ignored.

On the other hand, if I place the Progress code within a PHP app, PHP doesn't know what the heck it is.

I've tried using "require" and "include" statements, but these seem to get me nowhere, as well.

This would appear to be something elementary, that is escaping me, as one of the fundemental features of PHP is "working well with others".

Any help? Did I explain it well enough?

Thanks for reading!

          Karl

dmills

i never even heard of progress DB, but a quik glance at their website says it supports ODBC interfaces and PHP has a whole set of ODBC functions. see http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/ref.odbc.php

Anon

Yes, certain versions of Progress do support ODBC, but unfortunately my version does not -- at least not natively.

That's why I was hoping that there is a method to "escape" PHP or Progress, within the app, to switch to the other.

Similar to how one "escapes" PHP to code HTML.

dan0 wrote:

i never even heard of progress DB, but a quik glance at their website says it supports ODBC interfaces and PHP has a whole set of ODBC functions. see http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/ref.odbc.php

dmills

or maybe you could just escape in and out of html mode. i.e. put the progress code outside the <?php ?> tags and, of course, the php inside them ... but then how would the php access the progress resultset? hmmm. you would have to read/write to a temp file or something, sounds pretty nasty...nevermind 🙂