On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 02:22 AM, George Pitcher wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm a PHP newbie, my main scipring being done in Blueworld's Lasso. > > I have used php fro time to time with Lasso to do some file handling. > > My question is: 'Can I run a file from a PHP script?' > > The file in question would be a Filemaker database file. I want to be > able > to open the file in the Filemaker application if the file is not already > running. > If you mean can you open the Filemaker application on the client's machine using PHP, then no. Keep in mind that PHP is only running on the server(*), all the client machine sees is the HTML output from your PHP script. Maybe you could use javascript to do this, but I haven't used javascript much. -Steve (*) Assuming you're using PHP in its normal web-server scripting mode. > MTIA > > George in Edinburgh > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
