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POST data from HTML form to FileMaker

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Hi,

 

Is it possible to have a form on my web site that a user can fill out their information and when they hit submit it sends the POST data directly to my FileMaker 14 database? 

 

I do not want to use web direct or have to grab the data any other way. I want to be able to POST it directly. 

If you have FileMaker Server Advanced, you could use Custom Web Publishing to create a PHP form that saves submitted data into a FileMaker table. 

Yes, PHP (or other web app) can POST to web published FMS hosted databases. If the "form" is from the "outside", that is.

If you want to post a form as seen in FM's Web Viewer, I suggest you research using JavaScript and the FM protocol to push values to FM.

(a starting point for FMP protocol - also called FMP URL - in no particular order):

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5560/kw/FMP protocol

https://www.filemaker.com/help/14/fmp/en/html/sharing_data.17.6.html

http://isolutions-inc.com/2014/04/05/fmp-url-scheme-and-the-13-0v2-improvement/

http://www.asktami.com/articles/use-filemaker-pro-13-fmp-url-open-filemaker-file/

http://www.filemakertoday.com/filemaker-functionality/18-filemaker-functionality/filemaker-url-protocol

 

(the above with Javascript):

http://blog.jsfmp.com/post/88307579211/responsive-web-viewer-layouts-fmp-url-javascript-demo

http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/2014/04/getting-started-javascript-and-filemaker

 

 

 

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