do i need to install the odbc drivers or can i just call the fields? also, is there a cdml reference book anywhere?

Yes PHP can accses data from FileMaker.. however.. I

Maybe through ODBC.

What is the advantage of using ODBC and php over WebCompanion and CDML?

Been having problems myself here, I have ended up parsing a CDML page, but thats for remote access , I had no problems connecting via ODBC on the same machine...

<?

if($connectionstring = odbc_connect("filemaker", "", "")){echo "cool";}else{echo "uncool";die();}

$yaks=odbc_tables($connectionstring);

$yy=1;$y=1;

while($int=odbc_fetch_row ($yaks,$yy)){$y++;$table[$y] = odbc_result ($yaks, 3);}//get table names - put in array//

?>

worked ok for me - where 'filemaker' is the DSN of my filemaker data source, had absolutely no joy howerver with a dsnless connection, which would have solved my problem as I know how to specify the host IP in a DSNless connection

Using Apache/php4.06 on win 98 (despite the mac icon against my uname!)

Anyone see this:

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-Arin