[selowitch]

Anybody out there using Lasso for bridging HTML pages with Filemaker?

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by selowitch:
Anybody out there using Lasso for bridging HTML pages with Filemaker?

Yep, I had the misfortune to inherit a couple of jobs and found out that Lasso is the biggest piece of junk for web development bar none. It's the Quark of the web design world. Stay away from it.

it's overpriced.
It's overly difficult to set up your database connectors.
The language is nowhere near as portable and efficient as PHP or ASP or Perl
Did I mention it was overpriced?
It's dog slow.
It's clumsy to debug (despite what Blueworld would have you believe) ... oooh look! Database update error! Now THAT's helpful. WHAT SORT OF ERROR??@?@

...and so forth...

I'm not aware of any PHP-to-Filemaker connectors but I'm sure someone's tried simply out of desperation and frustration.

Stay away from it. You've been warned!

[selowitch]

I sense that you're right, but I don't seem to have many options b/c the desktop database my client is wedded to is in Filemaker and other than 4th Dimension I don't see many other middleware options out there.

At least Lasso is more secure than CDML/XML publishing....

-Sam

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by selowitch:
I sense that you're right, but I don't seem to have many options b/c the desktop database my client is wedded to is in Filemaker and other than 4th Dimension I don't see many other middleware options out there.

At least Lasso is more secure than CDML/XML publishing....

-Sam

This looks promising...

http://www.moyergroup.com/whitepaper...Paper_2003.pdf