php integration

[kyledonmoyer]

Hello,

I am very new to Actinic, using Actinic Developer Version 7. I am curious to know how to integrate php with Actinic. To make things easy, I have tried to just echo a simple date script in my Actinic cart - this doesn't work. I have the php in a separate file and am including it in Act_Primary.html (ie <?php include "header.php"; ?>). How can I get this to work properly?


This is basically a simple test so that I can get familiar with the integration. Eventually I would like to be able to integrate this with a MySQL database used for job tracking...or does Actinic basically act like a job tracking service once I really get into it? Opinions? I basically want to be able to have a list of customers/clients and be able to see what they ordered (past and present) and also be able to have the customers/clients view the same information - allowing for quick re-orders, etc.

Thanks,
Kyle

[pinbrook]

Maybe you should be looking at V8, this is better for PHP integration

[jont]

... and customer order tracking

[kyledonmoyer]

shoot...

that really sucks...we just purchases actinic V7 about 3 months ago and haven't even used it yet...

thanks for your input...

Kyle

[los_design]

Did you buy it direct from Actinic or an Approved seller?

You may have 12 months cover so you can upgrade to V8 for no extra cost

Regards

[kyledonmoyer]

yes i did in fact...THANKS! that's fantastic news.

[NormanRouxel]

Actiniv V8 embeds a PHP interpreter into the Catalog.exe application. This means that you can run PHP code at page generation time to do all sorts of otherwise impossible stuff.

If you want PHP to run at the server then you need a PHP enabled server and your page name must end in .php, .php3, or whatever your server expects.

The quickest test you can make is to put the following into a product description

!!<
<?php
// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();
?>
>!!

And click the Section containing that product and in Layout set Page Name to end in .php. Now upload and see what displays.