ok folks,

i am a complete and utter novice when it comes to dreamweaver, but our company (a newspaper)'s website is done in this program, and we are keen to create an online directory of our advertisers which needs to be dynamic.

i have read some stuff in dreamweaver and understand that it is possible to link the website to our database using a database driver and application server and various other things i'm getting to grips with, but first of all, i wanted to make sure our database has the capacity to share data for an unlimited number of web users. we are only using filemaker pro 7, no developer or server software at all.

will this work?

if not, would the next best thing (assuming we dont want to spend any money!) be to somehow import data from FMP into dreamweaver?

i was looking into the possibility of creating a calc field that concatenates selected data into a single neat directory field (rather than displaying it in an ugly table across the page), but not sure how much formatting would be possible within this...

anyway, any tips or info anyone can provide on this would be fantastic... including recommendations, ie what would be a good database driver to use? (we are windows XP).

please take it slowly though, i am really not up on the jargon!

One inexpensive way is to use MySQL as the online database. MySQL is offered by many hosting services. You would need to "sync" your FM data with the MySQL database.

The "syncing" would be done periodically. The period depends on how dynamic your data is.

Deamweaver will talk via PHP with MySQL.

Hope this helps.

Garry

That is interresting.

Hope its ok that I jump in here....:

How do one sync mysql with filemaker? I have many databases made in filemaker, and want to transfer all the data into mysql for web reasons. That would be of great value for me if someone can tell how to do that!

(The only way I can use mysql is via the CocoaMySql gui)

Thanks for help!

Oystein