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

[Ted Stein]

Thanks, I actually switched to FX because I heard it was going to be discontinued. Glad to hear it isn't.

I was mistaken in the details, but the general principle behind supporting free open source is the same. Things can be discontinued even if systems are built with it. As you say:

> With FMS12, the 3-machine deployment & the 2-machine "alternative" deployment were deprecated

Also, the Site Assistant I believe:

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11293/~/removal-of-filemaker-server-php-site-assistant



Ted Stein
Inner File Software

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On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Joel Shapiro <jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
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