Integrating with WordPress is a challenge and involves different, sometimes difficult pieces: ODBC, ESS or SQL queries, data mapping, MySQL familiarity, custom functions, data type conversion (MySQL to FileMaker), and more. The WordPress MySQL data structure is, in and of itself, an interesting puzzle. Add to that developers who shoehorn their data into the […]
WordPress to FileMaker can be a challenge. Agnes Riley outlines a pretty straightforward method of connecting to Contact 7 database, a popular plugin in the WordPress world: I’m using the ContactForm7 plug-in to collect the information. Visitors can fill out the form and submit the info. The great thing is the plug-in works well, it […]
A COMMON QUESTION FOR FileMaker developers: How does FileMaker compare to Excel? Probably second only to: How does FileMaker compare to Access? Agnes Riley of ZeroBlue covered this topic a while back, and even provides an example of how some will try to make Excel do the work of a database–never a good thing: Everyone I know is familiar with […]