Web Publishing with FileMaker

Create data-driven websites with ease.

Instant Web Publishing

Securely publish your databases to the web in a couple of clicks. Create registration sites, customer feedback forms, service requests, surveys and more.

No additional software is required—with compatible web browser software and access to the Internet, web users you authorise can connect to your database to view, edit, sort or search records.

FileMaker Pro supports up to five simultaneous web users. If you need to support and share databases with larger groups of people over the web, FileMaker Server Advanced supports up to 20x as many web users as FileMaker Pro.

Custom Web Publishing

For more control over the appearance and functionality of your published database, use the Custom Web Publishing technologies available with FileMaker Server to:

• Integrate your database with another website
• Determine how users interact with data
• Control how data displays in web browsers

There are two custom web publishing technologies in FileMaker Server: PHP and XML/XSLT.

Custom Web Publishing with PHP

If you want to build custom, data-driven websites,
FileMaker Server has integrated support for PHP. Publish information to the web, capture web data or create new solutions combining a web-based front-end with a rich, FileMaker Pro back-end.

Publish FileMaker data to a PHP web application using the FileMaker Application Programming Interface (API) that performs the same kind of functions you already have in FileMaker Pro. Or use the PHP Site Assistant to help guide you step-by-step to create PHP-based web pages based on your FileMaker Pro layouts – no PHP coding skills required.

Custom Web Publishing with XML and XSLT

FileMaker Custom Web Publishing with XML allows you to exchange FileMaker data with other websites and applications. FileMaker Custom Web Publishing with XSLT lets you transform, filter or format XML data for web browsers or other applications. Use XSLT stylesheets to integrate any subset of FileMaker data into other websites, with other middleware and with custom applications. You can use the XSLT Site Assistant to generate XSLT stylesheets, or code the stylesheets yourself.

PLEASE NOTE: XSLT technology will no longer be supported in the next full version of FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced. Learn more (US Website)