I'm using Filemaker 8.5v1 and I import records updated records from a ftp site weekly. My script goes to the url and the text file appears. I can then manually open the text file and then have a script import the records. I want this to work in one smooth motion, I'd like to import directly from the ftp but can't seem to figure out how to do that. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I am using SmartPill Plugin from http://www.scodigo.com/, with it you can do lots of things and it is free.

If you only want ftp there is FtpIt plugin on http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/products.htm?product=FTPit

As far as I know there is no way to do this without plugin in one step.

There is also the VBscript plugin if you're more comfortable with VBscript than PHP (smartpill) and you don't have to do this cross-platform.

You could also use VBscript without a plugin to do this but it would take some additional steps.

Thank you both for the info on plugins that I can utilize to import data from a ftp site. My next question is automatically running the script every week. I want my records updated every Saturday, I'm not sure how to have a script run at certain time intervals. Any suggestions.