[FX.php List] Set Container Field

[Steve Hannah]

I haven't ever been able to find a way to do exactly what you're  
talking about - even though it would seem that you should be able to  
do it.  However, This article (http://doc.advisor.com/doc/15011)  
talks about setting a container field with a reference to a file:

"FileMaker Pro 7 offers a brand-new, exciting way to set a container  
field with a reference to a file by using the pathname of a picture,  
movie, or file from your disk. Use the Set Field script step to set a  
container with the text pathname to the desired file, and FileMaker  
Pro stores a reference to that file. Pathnames are absolute or  
relative to the location of the FileMaker Pro file you're working  
with. See table 1 for how to format the pathname.

Create a calculation field whose result is a container, and have it  
resolve to the text pathname (see table 1 below for examples) of the  
desired document; the container resolves to a reference to that file.  
Because it's a calculation, the document in the container can change  
dynamically.

Here's one you can use to amaze your friends. Paste the text pathname  
to a file directly into the container field, and FileMaker Pro stores  
a reference to that file, rather than the text you pasted. It's just  
like magic! Not voodoo, just good magic."

It would stand to reason that you could probably use FX.php to set  
the container field with the path of the file (see the above link to  
see the acceptable path formats), and the image should show up in the  
container field to filemaker users also --- I haven't tried this.   
Please let me know if this does or does not work.

Steve

On 3-Jan-06, at 10:25 AM, Charles Ross wrote:

> Dale,
>
> Because the database eventually needs to be accessible from  
> FileMaker Pro clients as well as the web, and those who use the  
> database with the FileMaker front end are going to need to see the  
> images uploaded within FileMaker. The web service I'm using right  
> now does not make the upload folder or the web folder accessible to  
> the FileMaker server, so I'm unable to have FileMaker import the  
> images. Also, it seems like this should be possible, but I'm not  
> finding an answer as to how.
>
> Eventually this needs to work, but for the time being, all access  
> to the database is through the web, and the Images table is storing  
> the URL to the image that was uploaded. That's OK for now, but  
> eventually I need to get these images into FileMaker. At this time,  
> it could be as a reference, but I haven't found out how to do even  
> that from PHP.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>
> On Dec 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> Does it make sense to store a graphic in a container field via the  
>> web? Why not just store a reference to it and serve that to the web?
>>
>> -Dale
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Charles Ross wrote:
>>
>>> Given a file at a URL (http://www.mycom.com/uploads/123.jpg, for  
>>> instance), is it possible to use FX.php to set a container field  
>>> to the contents of that file?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chuck Ross
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