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LASSO TIPS FOR NEWBIES: 3.3
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I'm your host, M i l e s.
First and foremost, a good place for you to start with Lasso is the
following 5 things:
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OMNIPILOT RESOURCE LIST
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TODAYS TIP:
THE INLINE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
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I'll never forget the afternoon that I web enabled my very first
FileMakerPro db. The Lasso install took less than 2 minutes. Once
installed it was just open the database, restart WebStar, then write
my page and run it. I was skeptical at first because these other
languages and scripts (tango, webfm, coldfusion) had to do x, y and z
and what not...soooo complicated. But I pressed on and wrote 5 lines
of code. An Inline, A records statement. A field tag. And then a
closing records and inline tag. Then saved the document, and pulled
the url & hit enter. I wasn't expecting anything after having tried
and failing with Tango & WebFM I was to say the least, appathetic.
The browser immediately returned my page to me. It was like the
clouds parted. Magic! Just FIVE lines of code. 5 lines!!! There
was my data! I was in awe. I sat there stunned for several minutes
giddy at the thought of what I had just done. I then ran it over
again...and kept looking at the code and was just stunned at what I
had just done. It was just 5 lines, but its 5 lines that would
change my life. The dreams of data avarice quickly began seeping
into my lil Mileslike brain and I saw bigger and better things to do
with my new found toy...errr 'skill'. I wanted to see what else it
and I could do....And my Life has never been the same since.
PART ONE: THE BASIC INLINE.
For those of you that have been living under a rock for the
last 8 years, the real power of Lasso aside from its simplicity and
ease of use, and its ace in the whole that sets it apart from other
scripting languages is the INLINE:
Your 'basic' inline consists of three parts. The tag (1), name
value pairs (2), and commands (3):
EX: [inline (1): -database='dbname', -table='tbname', -op='eq',
'fieldname'='somevalue' (2), -search (3)]
We all use this basic structure on a daily basis in some form or
another. In the 8 years that Ive been using Lasso this basic
structure hasn't changed all that much. A quick review of an inline
reveals that with it, you can invoke a query against a named
datasource and its table/layout, add records to said datasource/
tables, display said values from said query, or update values already
in said datasource/tables, and/or delete them. We all know this to
be true. And this is Lasso's true power I believe, what you can do
in a single inline, will take you 10 to 50 lines in any other
language....beat that with a stick PHP/.NET/COLDFUSION!
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