A few years ago I had to work with Cake and Filemaker - but thankfully I convinced them that the website could use it's own database, and their internal Filemaker database would just synchronise from this live site with a Filemaker script (one way synch only). There was just a cake action that output appropriate data as an XML file suitable for Filemaker, and the Filemaker script updated from this (with a recorded macro, as I recall).
But the final solution is quite limited (one way, not automatic), and it was a pain to work with - I really didn't like FileMaker after that. Admittedly, this was back when Filemaker was not relational either (FM 6 or 7 as I recall), so maybe things have improved. But if it still doesn't support SQL, maybe not. On Jul 17, 5:24 am, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone had success using Filemaker as a repository for Cake? There > have been a few posts here on the issue, but nothing for quite some > time. > > I realize it is quite a task since Filemaker does not really handle > SQL. Filemaker does have a PHP API and there is something called > FX.php which is another way of accessing the data. > > The problem that I am facing is that a customer has an internal > Filemaker database which they would like users of their website to > have access to some of the data. They are moving their site's hosting > internally to facilitate this change. If anyone has any other ideas of > how to get the filemaker data into Cake, I am all ears. I was thinking > some sort of database synchronization, but I think that will be more > trouble then it is worth, if it is even possible. > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
