Newbie Considering FM for website...BUT...

[tjmichner]

hello all... I need some expert advice. I am considering using FM to create a database that must be on a website NOT on my own computer. I do not want to use server side scripting or anything I just want to have visitors able to query a database to see team scores for 20 basketball teams.

Is this possible? I am getting very different ideas from different sites. I am not interested in the instant web publishing because as I said I don't want to host it.

If FM is capable of doing this, is there a comprehensive article to read? All I am finding is this instant sharing information.

If FM is not what I am looking for to do this, please save me a lot o f wasted time and energy.

Thank you very much.

[Leb i Sol]

"I said I don't want to host it."

So in other words you dont want to use FM.

1st what programming language are u planing to use for the web? ASP, PHP, JSP?

IWP is the easieast way to get FM to web but you have to post more about what the site is goign to offer. Your project is geared towards web...what you use as your back end depends stricly on how robust and feature filled the site will be.

IF you are only looking to publish some scores of teams and Nothing else...well then I say just make 2-3 static pages and carry on...

for a small project like this...I would say use ASP or PHP with Access in the backgrund as you will have easier time finding tutorials and tips on it.

FM is a LOT more than access or.....everying has its place....it just depends where you are going with this.

All the best!

[PC Infoman]

Leb, you mention using FM. Can you tell me what I need to do to make FM work as the database server? Do I need FM Server? How does this work? Will I need to install it on my own web server or do I upload something to my web host?

I have a project in which I want to pull the data in my FM to display on the web. Currently, my FM is housing my entire inventory (complete with pricing, pictures, stock #s, descriptions, etc). I want to display that info on my website. All this to make an online catalog. You can see an example of my current catalog at http://www.animalmakers.com/Catalog/. I currently did this in php and excel csv files.

I guess what I want is to build an html or php template with placeholders for where each piece of data will be placed. Then I want to call the data from the database and place it on a new dynamic page using the template. Does this make sense?

Edited October 26, 2006 by Guest

[Leb i Sol]

Hi PC Infoman,

sorry been away for a while...

Yes, you would defintely want to go in direction of FM server (which will also act as a webserver so).

Depending on what functionality you need to get out of the site there are few ways/languages that you can use.

The easies is just using FM custom web publishing and CDML tags along with JavaScript. There are some limitations to HTML+CDML+JavaScript but you can get quite a bit published.

Other options are going through PHP or ASP....

so post more or just venture into CDML or better yet test out FM webpublishing as a 'low-end' FM to Web solution.

Take care

[John May - Point In Space]

If you publish using FileMaker, and don't want to host on your own machine, you'll need a hosting provider that supports FileMaker databases. We do this if you're interested:

http://www.pointinspace.com/

We support any combination of FileMaker Network Sharing, Instant Web Publishing, XML/XSLT Custom Web Publishing, FX.php, FileMaker's PHP API and Lasso Professional.

- John

Edited February 2, 2007 by Guest

[Leb i Sol]

there you go my man....John can provide you with just about anything you may need for FM->Web.

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Edited February 2, 2007 by Guest