[FX.php List] Reported difference between FX & API

[Bob Patin]

Sounds like nonsense to me... I use the API and it's never done  
anything remotely similar...

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On May 29, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I thought this was interesting.  It's from a thread on the "Web"  
> forum of FMI's TechTalk:
>
>> I have been testing the FileMaker PHP API for a while now and have  
>> reported a (what I call) major flaw in the API.  When you do a  
>> search using the API FileMaker will return each and every field  
>> attributes not once in a header but for each and every record in  
>> your search and for each and every portal row in your found search.  
>> I had a database with 20 fields and one portal with 4 fields and  
>> found 280 records and the returning data was 10mbs which killed my  
>> clients machine... <snip /> I had to switch to FXPHP and that fixed  
>> the problem
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