Is FMS appropiate?

[jihnd]

Hi,

I've a client who would like to export individual records from their filemaker database to his website, basically use filemaker as his cms. The records do contain images. I am getting my head around filemaker server, and i'm wondering if it's overkill. The reason I say overkill is because i don't need any live sharing of data from the database, just a publishing solution

My preliminary thoughts were to use it to communcate to a php upload script on the web server (if that even possible, please don't laugh). The client does not host servers and their hosting provider has no filemaker facilities. Mysql/php is the existing technology, should i use FMS to update the Mysql database hosted on the web server? Or would simply exporting as xml be easier (problem being with images).

I'm really new to Filemaker so apologies for any misdirection in my question, I'm simply flailing a bit here and would really appreciate some direction

cheers,

gina

Edited May 31, 2008 by Guest

[Steven H. Blackwell]

With the new ESS connection capability in FileMaker Pro 9, you may be able to connect to the SQL system directly. No exporting required.

I have to say though that this configuration sounds a little fragile.

Steven

[jihnd]

cheers, i'm looking into ees now, it's seems to fit the bill nicely, my only remaining issue is getting images from the database stored in container fields uploaded to the webserver. is there anyway to script the upload say using the filepath and text strings, with a webserver on the client machine? just thinking out loud here, any ideas?