[FX.php List] [OFF] FM API Standalone [WAS: Some Community Updates]

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi Ted

The page you link to refers to the termination of the *beta* version of the API that came out before the official release with FMS9 in 2007. 

I have not heard anything about the standalone being discontinued or even deprecated.  

Have you seen that somewhere else?


With FMS12, the 3-machine deployment & the 2-machine "alternative" deployment were deprecated, but not the standalone.
http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11468/

The page "Manually installing the FileMaker API for PHP" doesn't mention discontinuation, although it does link to that earlier page (this time with the word "beta" in the link):
http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6531/

FMS13 comes with the FM_API_for_PHP_Standalone.zip as previous versions have done, and it does work on a web server that does not have FMS13 installed.

It would definitely be a concern if FMI were to discontinue the standalone of their API.  Please let me know if you've heard/seen this somewhere else.

Thanks,
-Joel


On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Ted Stein wrote:

> ...FileMaker can't discontinue FX (as they did with the standalone version of the FM API).
> 
> http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6645
> 
> I did like the FM API a lot, but the standalone was important to my business model. FX offers the value of the standalone and can't get discontinued, as it would get forked if it did.
> 
> Ted Stein
> Inner File Software