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Apr 28th, 2010 at 3:21pm
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We're releasing the free Sesame API today, but I thought you folks might like a preview. It's been very useful in testing. We've even given it out to a few people who had a specific need for it, and it's performing quite well in the field. To read about what it does and/or download it:

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Reply #1 - Apr 30th, 2010 at 2:51am
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Just downloaded the API Client.  I am sure we will be discussing this on Saturday at our SANE meeting. 

This will probably be much better than ODBC, I like the ability to support so many languages, thanks a lot.
  



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Reply #2 - Apr 30th, 2010 at 3:58am
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I just opened the Countries Merge.doc sample file for use with Visual Basic. 

Like all the other Lantica work, this is excellent work.  The sample with Visual Basic code is well laid out, clearly commented, indented for easy reading.

Also a terrific idea to include the declarations file for pasting into new documents.  Good to have note about no need to remove unwanted declarations, makes it really simple to jsut jum right in and develop the needed coding.

Will need some time to understand all of the new Sesame functions, but they seem to be intuitive.  Again, the documentation with the syntax and examples is just what is needed.

Thanks for the tools to help connect with other applications, a real plus for us.
  



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Reply #3 - Jun 8th, 2010 at 4:17pm
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FYI: Since the release of the Sesame API, we've seen people making interesting and very successful use of it, including integrations with Crystal Reports, SharePoint, and JAWS (screen reader for the visually impaired).  If you're working with the API, we'd love to hear what you're doing with it. If you're thinking about giving it a try, it's definitely worth exploring.

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Reply #4 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 2:29pm
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Hi,
Thanks for providing the API. It's extremely useful.
We recently upgraded our version of PHP to 5.3 as required to stay PCI compliant. But the new version of PHP has removed the dl() function used in the api. It shows the following error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function dl() in <path>/sesame_php_api.php on line 22

Is there a workaround or patch I can apply to sesame_php_api.php to get it up and running again?

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Reply #5 - Aug 15th, 2011 at 7:28pm
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dhopkins wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 2:29pm:
Hi,
Thanks for providing the API. It's extremely useful.
We recently upgraded our version of PHP to 5.3 as required to stay PCI compliant. But the new version of PHP has removed the dl() function used in the api. It shows the following error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function dl() in <path>/sesame_php_api.php on line 22

Is there a workaround or patch I can apply to sesame_php_api.php to get it up and running again?


If your version of PHP has disabled dl(), then you need to use the extension directive in your php.ini file to load the extension.
  

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