Real fm newbie question

[Lancealot]

ok, a friend has an old site, just called me as he setup filemaker, put a bunch of his clients in, products, etc. now wants it on the web.

I have been a web/php developer for 6+ years now, and lost, well not really started yet. I installed the demo of fm9, even started looking at the tut video's, but before I even venture, can someone answer these basic q's.

Normally (using mysql, mssql, oracle, postgres,etc) I would make my page, do my db connect, hand code the queries, put data in arrays(the normal stuff), is this possible in fm?

I haven't found where I simply say, connect with this string, or do this, etc I see hours of tutorial video's, but I haven't gotten access to the server side yet, it's hosted elsewhere on some fm supported isp, but really lost.

Any help, or steering in the right direction is appreciated.

Lr

[krmullins]

ok, a friend has an old site, just called me as he setup filemaker, put a bunch of his clients in, products, etc. now wants it on the web.

I have been a web/php developer for 6+ years now, and lost, well not really started yet. I installed the demo of fm9, even started looking at the tut video's, but before I even venture, can someone answer these basic q's.

Normally (using mysql, mssql, oracle, postgres,etc) I would make my page, do my db connect, hand code the queries, put data in arrays(the normal stuff), is this possible in fm?

I haven't found where I simply say, connect with this string, or do this, etc I see hours of tutorial video's, but I haven't gotten access to the server side yet, it's hosted elsewhere on some fm supported isp, but really lost.

Any help, or steering in the right direction is appreciated.

Lr

You can link FM Server up via PHP much the same way you would mysql, but I would recommend buying FMStudio. http://www.fmwebschool.com/fmstudio.php

It provides all the functions in Dreamweaver to easily build a PHP site connected to a Filemkaer database.

Also if you have FMP9 Advanced there is a PHP Site Assistant you can try but you need access to the server.

Choose Tools menu > Launch PHP Assistant to link directly to the PHP Site Assistant. PHP tools are part of the FileMaker Server product.

Hope that helps a little.

Kevin Mullins

[Lancealot]

ok thanks. As I said, I have the 42hour (sarastic note), tutorial that goes from this is an html block to complex php queries, but nothing that say's here is the howto connect period as there is a mysql_connect, mssql_connect, etc.

I like the idea of the site assitant, then again I don't for the fact, I know what I want to do with some custom pages, and apps like dw with its overkill of tags is just not what I need.

I can get the table structure, field names from the app itself, just need that connect string.

Thanks for the reply.

[krmullins]

I know you are reading the same Forums I am but I just saw this list of Filemaker/PHP resources and in case you haven't stumbled on the post yet here is the link to an interesting resource Jonathan Stark put together for his Devcon session.

http://jonathanstark.com/devcon.php