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

[Dale Bengston]

Hi Elleni,

You have received some great comments from lots of enthusiastic  
FX.PHP users on this list. I can't add much to the benefits stated  
here, so I'd like to take a step back and try and get to what this  
guy is really asking. It seems to me that he really isn't  
understanding what FX.PHP does, which is parse FMP's XML so you don't  
have to. It's a free, open-source, well-supported tool. If your  
developers are using PHP to talk to mySQL, it should be pretty darn  
easy to adapt those skills to FX.PHP. Maybe he's throwing up the  
roadblock of not using FX.PHP to try and keep FMP out of his web world.

Well, if FMP where the data is, then that's where he should go get it  
for the web, and FX.PHP is going to make that about as easy as you  
can imagine. I have encountered this scenario from the other  
perspective on many occasions: client's data is in MS SQLServer or  
mySQL, and that's where it is going to stay. So I have to do my job  
and integrate that data source with my FMP sources and put it all to  
the web.

That's all a long way of saying it sounds like he just doesn't want  
to do it, and he doesn't want to learn what he needs to learn so he  
can do it. Even if you can prove the viability of FX.PHP to him, I  
would expect more roadblocks to be tossed up.

Good luck. We're in your corner!
Dale Bengston

On Dec 2, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Elleni B Fellows wrote:

> Adam,
>
> Thanks for giving me more ammo for my argument! I would be  
> interested in looking at your presentation. Thanks. I am starting  
> to think our web guy has not really looked closely at the  
> documentation for FXphp.
>
> Elleni
>
> Adam Morris wrote:
>> ... The one nice part about this technique is that the FileMaker  
>> scripts are more or less easy to write - they are basically simple  
>> export scripts.  If you want more information on this, I can send  
>> you a copy of a short presentation I wrote for the Boston Area  
>> FileMaker Developers Group that introduces this process.
>
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