Re: Enter or update a record from a browser

Anything from Brad will be worth reading.

Other places to get HTML.JS.CSS instruction include these -

www.w3schools.com (online tutorials in all manner of disciplines)

www.sitepoint.com (excellent books, often having sales and bundles)

One tip for you, Booth - when you fire up an Apache instance, include the -vv startup value- this will start a verbose service trace and get you a bunch of spooled files that have lots of good information, including all the header values and environment variables and all.

Just be sure to do this for a short time - don't leave an instance running with this - testing only.

And the spooled files are created AFTER shutting down the instance. User will be QTMHHTTP, most often, as I recall.

HTH
Vern

On 3/31/2014 6:55 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:

I also would strong suggest using CGIDEV or our eRPG SDK (www.erpgsdk.com).


But, it wouldn't hurt to look into the APIs just to get a general sense of
what they do. I think you'll find that the RPG/CGI part is the easy part,
and incorporating HTML/JS/CSS is where the learning curve will be. At
least I've found that to be the case with most IBM i programmers.

I also have a few books out on the subject that would be worth picking up.
I know the eRPG series can be purchased quite inexpensively now. :) Then
there are a couple training manuals that would be good as well. Feel free
to contact me off line for some assistance picking some out.

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Booth,

You want the HTTP API's

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzaie/rzaierefapi.htm

But I'll second the recommendations to use the CGIDEV2 wrapper instead of
using them directly.

The CGIDEV2 wrapper was originally an IBM project...so maybe you can
consider it 2 1/2 party software :)

If nothing else, you could dig into the guts of CGIDEV to see how the HTTP
APIs are used.

Charles


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a learning process for me. I can write a simple report to the
Intranet with an RPG program and it works well. (Thank you Scott
Klement for your directions on doing this.) I like that solution to
provide useful data to bosses and sales staff with no real learning
curve for them.

What I would like to do is to allow records to be added directly to the
data file. Once I have learned to do that, step 2 would be to allow
editing of those records.

I want to stay away from 3rd party software. That may be the wrong
answer from a production point of view, but I want to learn the process.

Any examples or tips would be appreciated.

(What I have done so far is visible at
http://martinvt.com/Ice_Cream_Project/ice_cream_project.html )
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