Subject: Re: Filemaker on the Web
From: Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. (bucky@interaccess.com)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 10:15:41 EST
FileMaker can, however, be used as your master database, and can function as
a web-hosted admin database, very well. It can exchange data with MySQL or
PostgreSQL. These two are _much_ better for web applications.
comp.databases.filemaker has some fairly good discussions on occasion. And
members of the Apache/MySQL/PHP list (AMP@dynapolis.com) seem to be
interested in this topic to a certain degree.
-B...
> From: Basil Hussain <basil.hussain@specialreserve.net>
> Organization: Inter-Mediates Ltd.
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:46:08 +0000
> To: Heath Henderson <heath@dave-world.net>
> Cc: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
> Subject: Re: Filemaker on the Web
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:53:23 -0500 (EST)
>
> Hi,
>
>> Does anyone have any experience posting Filemaker Databases to the Web. We
>> have many good Dept. Databases that we would like to push out to the web,
>> but I am not experienced in coding any of this. I am going to learn it
>> however, but I need some examples to work off of.
>
> I have just one word of advice - don't. It may be fine to start with using
> the Filemaker Web Companion or something like Lasso and WebStar, if your
> usage is going to be light. But, if you're going to be getting any more than
> light usage, then I would advise against either of these options - and
> against Filemaker altogether even.
>
> The company I work at used to be a solely Mac environment, so our web site
> started out working completely with Lasso and WebStar. Needless to say, we
> had to restart the web serving Mac virtually every day, as crashes were a
> frequent occurance. Even later on, as things got more popular, with 5 Macs
> serving web pages and one Filemaker Server, things didn't improve. We've
> since switched to PC servers with Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL and of course,
> Netatalk. Our uptime is now measured in months, not hours...
>
> But, you probably don't want to hear this. So, if you're a novice and only
> need a really basic solution for a few people here-and-there to access
> occasionally via the Web then I'd go for the bundled Filemaker Web
> Companion. I've never used it myself, but I gather it's pretty simple stuff.
>
> But, if you're planning on beginning the makings of an e-commerce presence
> for your company, then steer well clear of Filemaker.
>
> Regards,
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
>
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