Save yourself plenty of time and grief. Read this post by Andrew Duncan on layout tips when using the FileMaker PHP API. Keep the Hackers at Bay! How to Improve WordPress Security Michael Rocharde on Boosting your Bottom Line: Five Ways You Are Wasting Time Without Even Realizing It (one of my strong points…) If you […]
So, the difference between responsive and adaptive design for web pages (and WebDirect and FileMaker PHP pages) is significant: The differences between responsive and adaptive design approaches spotlight important options for us as web and app designers. Choosing with insight can empower you to plan and execute your designs with better aim, purpose and results. […]
The future of FileMaker is in it’s connectivity with the rest of the world. And FileMaker has opened the channels of communication to the rest of the world with a variety of tools: FMP Urls ODBC PHP API access XML CWP WebDirect FileMaker is a great tool for controlling what happens in your environment. It’s […]
Michael Rocharde: This is very clever but, really, what's the point! The AppleWatch, which I still can't see the point of, has…
Don Clark: Hey, Michael, good to hear from you! Hope things are going well. My whole point is for developers to push…
Robert Samnegård: Hi Michael, My point is that a lot of craftsmen don't think it's practical to fetch the phone deep down…
Building an online form can be tricky, and linking it to FileMaker even more so. Tim Dietrich attacked the problem from a different perspective: Use an online form builder, Wufoo, to take the pain out of the web building side. Next, design a FileMaker solution, fmfoo, using PHP to link to Wufoo to FileMaker: I released […]
FMEasyWeb is now in Beta! Check out this Free and easy way to share your FileMaker data directly to the web: FMEasyWeb With EasyWeb you can quickly and easily provide Web-based access to your FileMaker databases without needing to write code. With EasyWeb, you can: • Provide visitors with access to data stored in a […]
Combining Custom Web Publishing (CWP) with Webdirect is a challenge, but offers a large range of options to the developer not available in Webdirect. In this instance, Mike Duncan of Soliant uses PHP functions to loop through a found set of FileMaker Webdirect records to combine container field files into a single zip file that […]
I’ll admit, pushing parameters to FileMaker WebDirect sessions has not been high on my priority list. Actually, it hasn’t made the list at all, so far. Thankfully, guys like Mike Duncan, Mike Beargie, and Steve Senft-Herrera are on the case. FileMaker removed the ability to pass parameters to WebDirect in the 13.0v2 update, and these enterprising […]
ANDY FRAZIER OF EXCELYSIS serves up lots of code–with step by step instructions–for replacing the home page of FileMaker 13 Server. But he didn’t stop there. This new page is responsive (meaning it shows properly on any platform including smart phones) and makes the databases available not only in WebDirect but from FileMaker Pro/Go. Combining the various […]
KEVIN HAMMOND OF DBSERVICES found a way to print pdf’s from FileMaker Server. Their unique solution is falls on the more difficult side to set un and configure, but once done opens the door to automated reports from the server: Have you ever wanted to email customers their invoices automatically? Have you ever wanted to generate […]
How to Create a PDF from FileMaker Server | DB ...: […] KEVIN HAMMOND OF DBSERVICES found a way to print pdf’s from FileMaker Server. Their unique solution is falls on…
THERE’S A NEW FILEMAKER BLOG in town! Kudos to David Nahodyl of Bluefeather Group for jumping into blogging., His first post is all about Custom Web Publishing (CWP). CWP is a lot for most FileMaker developers to bite off unless they have prior programming experience with mysql, php, etc. It’s not just the programming, however. The setup process is […]
Hooking Formstack into FileMaker Published on June 13, 2013 by Anders Monsen There are generally three ways to get web-based form data into FileMaker. You can set up Instant Web Publishing using FileMaker Server Advanced, exposing a FileMaker layout directly to the web. You can write a custom HTML form and submit the data using […]
Nick Ciske: We do this all the time -- almost all modern WordPress themes are responsive, so you can easily setup a…
Don Clark: If you ever do release them, Nick, let me know. I'll buy.