End-of-Life for DF4WP

[Chip Casanave]

DataFlex 4 WordPress has run its course and reached end-of-life. While “DF4WP” functions OK and can continue to do so on the DataFlex, WordPress and operating system platforms on which it has been deployed, no updates or enhancements will be made to the plugins beyond the current version which is based on DataFlex 18.2. DF4WP users should plan migrations to alternative platforms to avoid encountering unexpected issues in the future when some combination of changes in WordPress, other plugins, security, operating systems and DataFlex render active DF4WP websites inoperable.

This decision was being contemplated when Jesmond posted his inquiry on February 5th. We informed him in advance of the change which he graciously accepted.

[DaveR]

DataFlex 4 WordPress has run its course and reached end-of-life. While “DF4WP” functions OK and can continue to do so on the DataFlex, WordPress and operating system platforms on which it has been deployed, no updates or enhancements will be made to the plugins beyond the current version which is based on DataFlex 18.2. DF4WP users should plan migrations to alternative platforms to avoid encountering unexpected issues in the future when some combination of changes in WordPress, other plugins, security, operating systems and DataFlex render active DF4WP websites inoperable.

This decision was being contemplated when Jesmond posted his inquiry on February 5th. We informed him in advance of the change which he graciously accepted.

A pity, a good idea. At least I can delete one 'future project' from Trello.

[Ianv]

Chip,
Can you suggest any alternative platforms?
Ian

[Raphael Theiler]

You can include simple views quite easily in other webapps (Have a look at the Order.html and iOrders.html in the Web AppHTML of the WebOrder-example workspace).
There are a few caveats like CORS, etc. but nothing really dramatic.
It will get tricky if you want to integrate your webapp into the authentication system of the "surrounding" webapp, but a lot of use cases don't require that level of integration anyways.

[starzen]

It will get tricky if you want to integrate your webapp into the authentication system of the "surrounding" webapp, but a lot of use cases don't require that level of integration anyways.

in that case you should integrate SSO. that way all systems can use the same authentication. We use SAML2 for example