Re: ANNOUNCE: FX.php -- FileMaker and PHP together at last!

On Friday, September 21, 2001, at 09:53 AM, Anita Holmgren wrote:

Chris, this is an interesting piece of work. I'm copying the iTools list because I think that many iTools customers are waiting for a FileMakerPro solution on Mac OS X. Is there any reason why this couldn't be used on that platform with iTools, having FileMakerPro on another machine?

-Anita

Absolutely none. In fact, I used FX.php with iTools before I tried it with WebTen. FX will work equally well with with FileMaker running on another machine (a dedicated database server, for example) or running on a single machine with dual NICs. I've done both. Thank you for your interest.

--Chris

At 5:00 PM -0700 9/14/01, Chris Hansen wrote:

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.)
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