Does the PHP Assistant make it a lot easier to build web pages that access the Filemaker database than doing this via ASP.NET?

Could a novice web programmer develop web pages via the PHP Assistant?

I don't have any experience in ASP.NET, but I would say the FileMaker PHP Site Assistant is a good way to get your feet wet. It is capable of getting some basic pages up pretty quickly with a minimum of fuss.

I am personally finding that the Site Assistant generated files require a lot of tweaking, but that is mainly due to my extra requirements (like uploading files from a web form to a FileMaker container field). But a web designer can easily reformat the outputted files to suit.

Here's a good resource for the Site Assistant:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1015172&seqNum=6

I don't know ASP.NET either, but assuming it offers something like cURL and has a decent server side XML parser, you'll be able to do anything the PHP SA can do using the XML API. Granted, it might be more trouble than it's worth, but it's possible.

Edited June 5, 200916 yr by Guest