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

[anita@xxxxxxxxx (Anita Holmgren)]

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

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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