Hello everyone. I've struggled with slow responsiveness between PHP and Filemaker for ages now, and I think I've finally found out why.

Scripts run infinitely faster than the PHP Filemaker API for record creation. Using the PHP API, it takes 29 seconds to create 50 records. I can create 250 records in a script in under 1 second.

So, obviously, I'm in the process of porting all my PHP API calls to use Filemaker scripts. But, there is one problem. How do you get a response from the Filemaker script back to PHP?

e.g. Creating a new user. User enters his email and password into a PHP form, then the PHP calls a Filemaker script to create a new user. But, if the email is not unique, I need to display a "username is not unique" message on the PHP form. If I'm checking for uniqueness in my Filemaker script, how do I get the filemaker script to send back a response to the PHP code that called it to know if the user creation process succeeded or failed?

Thanks for your help,

James.

I think that for the example of adding a single record, you should use the PHP API instead of a script. If you were to add many records, then it might make sense to use a script.

Search this forum for your answer; I think I've seen this question before.