[FX.php List] FileMaker 7/8 and PHP WITHOUT FX.php?

[Adam Morris]

Thanks Joel - I think I oversimplified our situation for the purposes of 
the discussion...as I recall, our FileMaker admin did not want ANY 
connection to our core FM databases via the web (our web-published data is 
relatively static, and gets refreshed via a lookup a couple of times a 
year).  I think one of the reasons was that we had specific fields we 
wanted to protect, so publishing a reference to an entire table would have 
been problematic.  It may also have been simply a matter of personal 
preference.

For most applications, however, such a high level of security is probably 
not necessary, and the separation model you suggest would work very well.

Adam

At 03:25 PM 12/2/2005, you wrote:
>(apologies for straying from thread topic)
>
>Hi Adam
>
>I'm not sure if this would be helpful or relevant in your solution,
>but FYI, by using a 'separation model' in FileMaker 7/8, you can have
>a separate 'web' .fp7 file that contains no data (nor tables) and
>references only the tables in your data file that you want to publish
>to the web.  This way, you can just publish the web file, and not the
>"entire database"
>
>Best,
>-Joel
>
>
>Joel Shapiro - FileMaker Pro Database Design
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>415-269-5055
>
>
>On Dec 2, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Adam Morris wrote:
>
>>The down-side is that you have to set up FileMaker web publishing.
>>And there may be reasons not to publish your entire databases to
>>the web.  Security is a big one, or at least it was for us, so when
>>we used FX.php we created a copy of a small portion of our
>>databases to web publish.
>
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Adam M. Morris
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