[FX.php List] Some Community Updates

[Chris Hansen]

Greetings all!

First off, I'd like to say again how fortunate I feel to be surrounded by such a great community.  It's the community around FX.php that has allowed it to grow into such a great tool and stay there.  Thank you!

There are also a couple of items that I'd like to make you all aware of that will be of general (or at least nearly general) interest:

1) Some time ago I recall someone wishing that there were an FX.php wiki.  Well, it just so happens there there IS an FX.php wiki these days, though there's nothing there...  It lives on github with the code.  Here's the URL: https://github.com/yodarunamok/fxphp/wiki   If any of you are able to contribute to the wiki -- even by just moving parts of the documentation up there -- that would be awesome.  Of course, this is something that I need to work on as well, I just wanted to be sure that everyone was aware of its existence.

2) There's a fair amount of chatter on the list about frameworks.  There has only been a limited amount done to make PHP frameworks work happily with FileMaker, and most of that is not associated with the "latest and greatest".  Recently I was looking at doing some modifications to one of the newer frameworks, and realized that I didn't really care for the guts of the thing, so I decided to build my own.  Granted this doesn't help with the "latest and greatest" frameworks out there, but I know there are people on this list who can do that if they'd like.  My purpose here is to put out feelers for interest in, and feature requests for a totally new framework.  Here are some of the key points so far:

  • FileMaker (via FX.php -- there are things I can do with FX, that aren't available with FAP), MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Riak as data sources.
  • MVC framework
  • There will be no extra work required to "make" a FileMaker model in the framework, just give it the name of a layout.
  • Views with be straight HTML pages.  No embedded PHP in the page AT ALL.  The framework will be used to populate your HTML based on the DOM.
  • Restful paths and operations
  • Designed to work with or without portals (just set it up how you want it.)

If you have any questions about the above, or have any requests (either for documentation priority or framework features) let's just get a discussion going on this thread.  Again, thank you all so much for making this such a great community, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Best,

--Chris Hansen
  Creator of FX.php
  "The best way from FileMaker to the Web."
  www.iViking.org