filepro INDIRECT function

[Walter Vaughan]

Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> Is there a function in filepro that will do the same thing as Excel's 
> INDIRECT function ?

I am thinking FIELDVAL might be closest to this function.

> On a html page Have a couple of Radio buttons with Field names and field 
> numbers onthem. So when a user checks some of these radio button and 
> Sumbits them.

The rest of this depends upon wrapping filePro in something like a 
perl/python/ruby/sh script or using fpCGIv2. Do you have experience with any of 
those?  I wrote a tutorial on how to do this with Perl years ago, but I lost all 
my 1994-2005 archives.

I think Mark's OneGate also could be used and should have a decent tutoral on 
how to extract data from filePro. I could be wrong.

Howie's fpWeb could also be used as a framework to build upon.

However, you'll find a thousand ready to go examples of what you want to do with 
php and mySQL with tons of features (like PDF, XLS, etc...), rather than what 
you might write with filePro. It might be a lot less work to keep a MySQL server 
in sync with your filePro data than to write the equivalent application.

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Walter