Announcing FX.php, a free, Open-Source PHP class which makes
FileMaker Pro Data accessible via PHP. FileMaker Pro's Ease-of-Use
and feature set have earned it a place in the hearts of many users.
PHP is fast, flexible, and able to access most any database...except
FileMaker Pro. Until now.
FX.php is a PHP class which combines the ease of use of FileMaker
Pro with the power of PHP. FX does this by parsing the XML created
by FileMaker Pro's Web Companion into a multi-level array. Once in
this form, you can use PHP's powerful functions to sort, display,
and otherwise massage your data. There are even hooks built into FX
to allow it to work with a MySQL caching class developed by Chris
Adams. This cache improves the performance of your web-based
FileMaker solution by approximately two orders of magnitude. Best
of all, you don't have to give up FileMaker Pro's ease-of-use to get
all of this.
Using PHP to serve your FileMaker data has a number of advantages:
- PHP is free and cross-platform
- Numerous, powerful, and widely varied functions
- Excellent on-line Documentation (see www.php.net/manual/en/)
- Numerous books on the subject
- PHP is fast
- PHP is included with WebTen
For more information on FX, please visit www.iViking.org, and follow
the link on the front page. For answers to your questions, send
e-mail to FX@xxxxxxxxxxxx Enjoy!
--Chris Hansen
Web Guru
note: As far as I can tell, Chris Adams has not yet uploaded the
caching class to his site. There will be a link to the caching
class on the FX page as soon as it is available. (The caching class
will be released as free, open-source software, too.)