[FX.php List] economical starter plan

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi Ian

Actually, I believe the "developers" license for FMSA (that Michael  
mentions) is now only available to members of the FileMaker Solutions  
Alliance.  With version 7 it came with FileMaker Developer, but they  
changed that with the release of 8.

You say you already have FMP7.  I don't know if they even still sell  
FileMaker 7 Developer anymore, but I'd recommend switching to  
FileMaker 8 if you're going to do any upgrading at all.  It seems  
like you should be able to upgrade to regular FMPro 8 and buy a  
'Subscriber' membership to the FSA -- possibly for about the same  
price as upgrading to FM7D.  This is a nice option, as you can  
develop everything right on your own machine, and the set-up would be  
pretty much like it would be on any client's full version of FMSA.   
(Unless you're going to be hosting your own DBs &/or hosting DBs/ 
sites for clients, you might not ever need to purchase a full copy of  
FMSA.)
http://www.filemaker.com/developers/compare.html

There's also a product called CafePHP that's supposed to allow people  
to web publish from FileMaker Pro (without Server), but I don't know  
more about it.
http://cafephp.com/

And of course, there are a number of good external FileMaker hosting  
companies.

HTH,
-Joel


Joel Shapiro - FileMaker Pro Database Design
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On Feb 24, 2006, at 4:43 AM, Michael Layne wrote:

> Ian,
>
> If you can bite off FileMaker Developer 7/Advanced 8, they come  
> with a 'developers' license for FMSA.  You enter the developer's  
> license code, and you can have up to 3 simultaneous connections  
> from FileMaker clients, etc.  The truth is I believe it doesn't  
> really count connections via the FX class and PHP, but I'm not sure.
>
> Also, I know this was the case with FM7SA, and understand it's  
> still the case with FM8SA.
>
> Developer/Advanced is still way cheaper than SA!
>
> HTH,
>
> Michael
>
> Ian Lessing wrote:
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> I'm a PHP developer who works mostly on Linux & Mac.  I've been  
>> getting into FileMaker lately and I'm excited about the  
>> possibilities of using a nice friendly database with PHP.  MySQL  
>> is powerful but it's NOT easy to work with.
>>
>> Here's the problem though...  I can't shell out the cash for  
>> FileMaker Server Advanced.  At least not until I can show some  
>> results to clients.   So... my question is what's the least  
>> expensive way to get started with FX?  I have FileMaker 7 on hand  
>> (Mac version).  Is there anyway to use FX in even a limited way  
>> with FMP7? Or should I rent some FMPSA hosting somewhere?  What's  
>> a viable approach?
>>
>> Thanks in Advance....   ---Ian
>>
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