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[Dale Bengston]

Ahem. FMI dumped CDML in favor of XSLT, not PHP. We're all here  
because of Chris Hansen developed FX.PHP, which existed outside of  
FMI's product direction for several years. Personally, I think FMI  
made a mistake when they got behind XSLT instead of PHP. As for being  
three years late, I think it's more like eight years late. If FMI had  
a crystal ball, they would have adopted open-standards like PHP  
instead of CDML way back with v4.

As for myself, I don't have any plans to stop using FX.PHP in favor  
of the PHP API. I've already learned it "the hard way."

Mr. Hansen is tied in well with FMI, and I expect we'll see a lot of  
cross-pollination between FX.PHP the PHP API. I also expect to see  
FMI roll out APIs for other environments like .NET and Cold Fusion  
and maybe Ruby. The PHP API, as I understand it, is just a fancy set  
of class wrappers to query FMP and parse the resulting XML. Sounds to  
me like a more user-friendly (more accurately, FMP-developer- 
friendly) version of FX.PHP.

Wim DeCorte has already brought out a similar home-grown (like  
FX.PHP) tool for using FMP as a .NET data source. Will FMI work with  
him for a FMP .NET API, like they worked with Chris Hansen on the PHP  
API? Who knows? In the final analysis, it's all about parsing XML and  
shipping it to one of many environments.

I don't think any future APIs based on established standards  will  
replace PHP; they will just be more tools we will have at our  
disposal. CDML died because it was proprietary. XSLT support will not  
die because of the PHP API. PHP support will not die because FMI  
offers other APIs. Options are a good thing.

Who knows, maybe one of us will be famous one day for writing FX-for- 
Ruby.

Dale

On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Derrick Fogle wrote:

> Ha ha! Good one. FMI was at least 3 years late to the market with a  
> PHP API though, they'll be at least that late with a Ruby API too;  
> I think we'll have to see the whole cycle of an "FR.php" product  
> out for a few years, and years of people like me constantly filling  
> their "ye olde suggestion box" with pleas to make it easy to use FM  
> as a back-end to XXX server-side scripting language, before FMI  
> will wake up and smell the API.
>
> On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:59 AM, DC wrote:
>
>> Um, do you remember CDML? Certainty of future support is a little  
>> ironic, no? FM inc dropped CDML like a stone once PHP gathered  
>> steam. What do you think will happen to the PHP API when Ruby  
>> takes over the Server-side scripting market?
>
>
> Derrick Fogle
> derrick at fogles.net
>
>
>
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