PHP Web Publishing

Give your team, your clients, or anyone you choose – anytime, anywhere access to FileMaker data.

About PHP Web Publishing

Using the PHP Site Assistant feature of FileMaker Server, you can easily give your team, your clients, or anyone you choose – anytime, anywhere access to selected FileMaker data.

Your users can do all this and much more via a web browser on a remote laptop, desktop computer or web-enabled mobile device:

• View and edit records
• Add new information
• Search and sort data
• See changes reflected in the hosted-database automatically – no syncing required!

How the PHP Site Assistant Works

It's easy to use the new PHP Site Assistant feature of FileMaker Server to generate a PHP website with a few clicks. Here's how:

1. Just select the database you'd like to publish, the layout group you'd like to work with, and the theme you'd like applied to your publish data. Note that there is a new theme designed specifically for the iPhone or iPod touch that will make your database look great in the smaller format.
2. Then choose which fields you'd like to appear on your website, along with their order, label and sorting sequence.
3. Then click the 'Generate Site' button to have the PHP Site Assistant create a site that displays your database automatically.
4. Now you can simply type in the web address to your PHP published FileMaker database to view, edit and create information on through a web browser.

There is no additional software that needs to be installed on the remote computer or mobile devices. Just enter the URL and go!

You also get searching and sorting features that make it fast and easy to find the information you need and view it the way you want. Plus, when you create new records or update information via the web, those changes are automatically reflected in the hosted database.

Get started with the PHP Site Assisant and FileMaker Server today!

• Try FileMaker Server 11 Advanced free for 30 days. Try Now
• Purchase FileMaker Server 11 or FileMaker Server 11 Advanced.
• Join the FileMaker Technical Network and use the included FileMaker Server 11 Advanced Development license. This license lets you build and test solutions (but is not for production systems).

Resources

Documentation and Notes

• FileMaker Server 11 Getting Started Guide (PDF 2.62MB)
• FileMaker Server 11 Custom Web Publishing with PHP (PDF 723KB)

PHP Architect magazine published 2 feature articles during the FileMaker API for PHP Public Beta:

• FileMaker Pro for PHP Developers Part I
• FileMaker Pro for PHP Developers Part II
• PHP Tutorial and Sample Files

Search Knowledge Base

View a list of common PHP questions and answers (US Website).