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SimpleFM PHP Web Connection for FileMaker – FileMaker Today
SimpleFM is a fast, convenient and free tool designed by Soliant Consulting, Inc. to facilitate connections between PHP web applications and FileMaker Server. SimpleFM is an ultra-lightweight PHP5 package that uses the FileMaker Server XML API. The FMS XML API is commonly referred to as Custom Web Publishing (CWP for short). View the project on GitHub »
SimpleFM is a fast, convenient and free tool designed by Soliant Consulting, Inc. to facilitate connections between PHP web applications and FileMaker Server. SimpleFM is an ultra-lightweight PHP5 package that uses the FileMaker Server XML API. The FMS XML API is commonly referred to as Custom Web Publishing (CWP for short). View the project on GitHub »
Features
Easy to Integrate
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Returns a PHP array. The result parser inside SimpleFMAdapter uses PHP5’s SimpleXML. -
Can be used on it’s own or with any service class, such as ZendAmf, ZendRest, and ZendSoap.
CWP Debugger
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Easily see the underlying API command formatted as a URL for easy troubleshooting -
Use the convenient errorToEnglish function to interpret FMS error codes
Simplicity and Performance
SimpleFM is a single class with less than 700 lines of code. While SimpleFM was written with simplicity as the main guiding principle, it also perfoms well. We have informally benchmarked it, and obtained faster results for the same queries compared to the two most common CWP PHP alternatives.
System Requirements
SimpleFM, the examples and this documentation are tailored for PHP 5.3 and FileMaker Sever 12.
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PHP 5.3+ -
FileMaker Server 12+
License
SimpleFM is free for commercial and non-commercial use, licensed under the business-friendly standard MIT license.