If you’re reading this post it’s probably because you’re preparing for FileMaker DevCon 2019, are signed up to attend the FileMaker Data API Training Day session, and are looking to ensure you have everything you need set up on your laptop. If so, you’re in the right place! If not, feel free to have a […]
FileMaker is in the process of moving away from the XML and PHP interfaces and replacing them with the FileMaker Data API. At the same time they’re also rebuilding the FileMaker Server admin console. One of the casualties of this process is there’s now no way to enable or disable XML or PHP from the […]
Recently we inherited a new project where FileMaker was being used to manage the content for a website, with an ODBC connection updating the MySQL database behind the site. The previous developers were using numeric IDs to link from page to page and category to category to sub-category to company etc. While this was certainly […]
This post is as much a ‘note to self’ as anything, but will hopefully help others too. Lots of our projects use RabbitMQ as a queueing mechanism, and since we all use Max OS X there are occasionally times when we need to restart the Rabbit MQ service – particularly on Mojave it seems to […]
We do a lot of work integrating FileMaker into web applications. All of our new projects use the Symfony framework for this, and as a consequence the Doctrine DBAL / ORM. We’ve written Doctrine drivers for both the PHP API and the Data API which makes development much quicker (and swapping clients from one to […]
As has become the norm at FileMaker DevCon Joel Shapiro of JSFmp organised a meet-up of users who are integrating FileMaker with external systems. Many of those who attend are using CWP to build FileMaker-backed web applications, but there are also plenty of people working on other integrations as well. Recently we had a client […]
If you want to be able to access the FileMaker Data API directly from JavaScript running in a client browser you’ll need to set additional headers to support CORS (Cross Origin Request Sharing). Think carefully about how you configure this, since you may not want to open your FMS to all locations, so consider what […]
We’ve been doing increasingly more work recently using Symfony as the framework for our CWP solutions – any new projects we start are definitely being built that way (to make this simple we’ve been working on a Doctrine Driver for FileMaker which may be of interest to you). One of the things that needs to […]
During the CWP User Group at the 2017 FileMaker DevCon Steve Winter presented the work which we have been doing in building a FileMaker driver for Doctrine to better support the use of FileMaker in Symfony web applications. Attached below are the slides from the presentation. All of the code mentioned is available through packagist […]
Steve Winter from Matatiro Solutions will be presenting the session “Explore cURL for FileMaker” at the upcoming FileMaker Developer Conference to be held in Phoenix from the 24th to the 27th of July. Session Description FileMaker’s robust functionality can be supplemented with a Web Service (or API) to help solve pretty much any task. But […]