php in the V8 designer tab

[gabrielcrowe]

what subset of php is actually available.

all i get is lame parse errors, but what i really want is something useful. like mysql, or sqlite, or even adodb.

is there any kind of connectivity i can have? norm?

[NormanRouxel]

Temporarily put

!!<actinic:block php="true">phpinfo();</actinic:block>>!!

into a Product Description and all will be revealed.

Also this http://community.actinic.com/showpos...0&postcount=13 post from Zoltan talks about extending the built-in functionality.

[gabrielcrowe]

excellent idea. thanks norm.

[NormanRouxel]

If you're going to write your own functions then I'm getting good results by putting my PHP functions into an external file and using

include_once 'myfunctions.php';

somewhere in my Layouts (before any PHP that needs these functions).

If you edit myfunctions.php, you'll need to restart Actinic in order for the changes to be applied.

[gabrielcrowe]

well isnt that cute, i got a sql database to render content in a page.

i need a god damn medal for that.

[NormanRouxel]

I posted (don't know where) a bit of code that interrogated some tables from ActinicCatalog.mdb from within a layout.

[gabrielcrowe]

well, thats what i was actually trying to do, but it causes my actinic to crash.

not good

can you find me the code, i searched, no luck.

[gabrielcrowe]

also, any kids out there wanting to play with this fire, be aware, that i'v just managed to get my actinic to a state where it crashes immidiately on loading.

this is only recoverable via editing out the offending code manually from the database.

be warned.

[NormanRouxel]

See http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=30483

I think I too may have experienced some crashes when testing this.

[gabrielcrowe]

actually, i was going dsnless, and i totally forgot about the allready installed connectors. no wonder it crashed.