Filemaker Server 5.5 - website - newbie question

[ehdesign]

I am a relatively experienced web designer and programmer. Have used php/mysql for many site. Have a client running Filemaker Server 5.5 on Mac os X. Would like to display the database on the web-site. Can this be done? If so how? Can someone help and possibly forward a page that shows how it is done? IS the ip address sufficient to create a connection???

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Wim Decorte]

With FMS 5.5 and the FileMaker 5/6 product line you can't connect to the server directly for the web. You need a separate machine with FileMaker Pro Unlimited on it and that machine will be the web host.

Check out iViking.org (for fx.php) for some resource on web enabling FM with PHP.

[Garry Claridge]

You can run a client version of FM as the Web Server, this would remotely open files from the FM Server. It would use the WebCompanion plug-in to serve pages to the web.

This method has a limitation of 10 unique IP address connections within a 12 hour period. The alternative, as Wim said, is to use FM Unlimited for this purpose.

All the best.

Garry