Having trouble with the getValueList function.

[Whit Farnum]

I am having difficulty getting value lists to display on my website using the getValueList function. I have followed the formats I found in various forums and blogs. I can get the arrays that are intermediates in the calculation to prints but I cannot get the final results. I have tried two different methods listed below neither giving success.

I have also tried to get value lists generated from field summaries and from customized lists. Neither works. What am I missing? The code follows below. I read in a forum that the get getValueList broke in Filemaker 10 and was replaced by getValueListTwoFields. I tried this and it was no better. I am currently using Filemaker 11.

Method looking up a stored list.

<?php

require_once 'fmview.php';

require_once 'FileMaker.php';

require_once 'error.php';

$cgi = new CGI();

$cgi->storeFile();

$databaseName = 'Species';

$layoutName = 'web';

$fm = & new FileMaker();

$fm->setProperty('database', $databaseName);

$fm->setProperty('username', 'pass');

$fm->setProperty('password', 'pass');

ExitOnError($fm);

$layoutObject = $fm->getLayout($layoutName);

ExitOnError($layoutObject);

$valueList = $layoutObject->getValueList('Genus');

?>

The other approach uses

$fieldObject = $layoutObject -> getField('Genus');

$valueList = $fieldObject -> getValueList();

In the HTML section I then run

<?php print_r($valueList);

echo 'message'; ?>

Only 'message' is loaded on the screen when the page loads.

[bcooney]

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