MUMPS of Georgia User's Group Meetings
December 9th, 1997
Tom Ackerman, MGA Chair, announced that the project that began at the last meeting will continue. An informal discussion covering HTTP's GET and POST, as well as URL encoding, and the HTTP header was held, following which the group moved into a practical session. M routines where written so that these HTTP data streams could be processed from within M.
Member were encouraged to come with questions and prepare for another instalment of this group’s digital drama, 'As M Turns the Web'.
January 13th, 1998
Art Smith gave a remote presentation of Missouri's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital's experiences with MSM's PDQWeb. His presentation covered the following topics:
- Live demonstration of the HIS web interface.
- The "under the covers" infrastructure for implementing PDQWeb pages.
Handouts prepared by Art including copies of the slides and some of the code, was handed out to attendees.
February 10th, 1998
Dan Baer made his final presentation on M and the Web: getting data from an M
database to the client's browser. During the presentation, MSM-Workstation was used as the M server. Attendees were able to construct a simple query form in HTML, submit the query to the M system, and have the M system send back the HTML response. While the presentation was not intended to be a universal fix to get M data on the web, it set out guidelines on what M programmers need to consider when developing a web application.
Topics covered included:
- HTML forms and their variables
- A quick look at the Visual Basic and MSM-WS specific interface (What is VB doing and what is M doing)
- Getting information from the CGI to M
- Working with HTML documents
- Formatting the M data to HTML
- Returning the HTML to the web browser
- Hard coding vs Templates
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