Newnhams - EPP - Embedded PHP for PROGRESS

Overview

Derived from the circa 1995 procgi.pl, this is a perl 5 compatible version. Use when:

You want a simple development strategy for a small, web based application.
You only have Progress 4GL licenses available.
You have legacy 4GL source code that you can leverage, but dont want to move to a Webspeed based application development environment.

Basic Syntax

			put unformatted "<html>".
			put unformatted "<head>".
			put unformatted "</head>".
			put unformatted "<body>".
			put unformatted "</body>".
			put unformatted "</html>".

Installation

You must have perl 5 installed on the system.

copy the procgi.pl script to the web server cgi-bin directory.
modify the DLC, PROEXE and Propath Values in the script.
Create a procgi.pf file in the root directory of the application directory.
The programs must exist under the htdocs subdirectory. Create a symbolic link, or you may be able to use apache directory mapping, or IIS virtual directories.

Configuring the web server

A Cool effect

It's possible to configure the Apache web server so that a progress .p file can be run directly from the browser, e.g.

 http://localhost/myapp/progress.p.

To achieve the effect, make the following changes to the Apache httpd.conf file

In the mod_mime section, add the following information

			AddType text/progress .p
			AddHandler procgi .p .r
			Action procgi /cgi-bin/procgi.pl

Licensing

This software is distributed under the terms of the GPL license.

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