MC - that php stuff ...

[Derek]

... surely if it's that good yu can apply a little magic and get it to run an AMS4 application straight from the web server.
type in: www.someaddress.com/ams.exe
and it'll run from there ..right?

and get it to plug into a database too, perhaps!

[unknown user]

No I don't think so. You could probably do it if the person was running something locally at the time because you could pass a command to that app to activate the appication. But with nothing running locally I doubt you can do that.

PHP is 100% Server Side, it can use the exec function on the server but not the client.

Anyway you slice it, the user would have to be running something locally to do this. Although it would possibly be possible to write an active x control to do that via a web page but some firewalls may not permit that.

Seems kind of ass backwards anyhow, what are you trying to do?

[Derek]

what are you trying to do?

It was more like idle curiosity prompted by another post i read

Thanx anyway /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif

[unknown user]

It's all about security. If one could tinker with apps freely via a browser, you'd be getting hacked by every tenth site you visit...