[FX.php List] Some Community Updates

[Denis Somar]

I'd love to see anything on this framework - sounds as magical as a unicorn
to me ;-)

But it would seriously add some fairy dust to the FM web offerings.  I'll
add some snippets to the wiki myself ASAP.

D


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Chris Hansen <chris at iviking.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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