Advanced FileMaker Pro 6 Web Development

Bob Bowers, Wordware Publishing, Inc.

ISBN:1556228600, Edition: 1st, 2003-03-01

Price: $59.95

• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Advanced FileMaker Pro 6 Web Development
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Dynamic Web
  • The Web as a Database Client
  • FileMaker on the Web
  • The Web Companion
  • Available Technologies
• Chapter 2: Preparing Your Databases for the Web
  • Planning the Project
  • Naming Conventions
  • Use of Global Fields, Calculations, and Summary Fields
  • Use of Scripts
  • Relationships, Portals, and Related Records
  • Layouts
  • Summary
• Chapter 3: Configuring FileMaker for the Web
  • Choosing Instant vs. Custom Web Publishing
  • Setting up the Host Machine
  • Enabling the Web Companion
  • Sharing the Databases
  • Securing Your Site
  • Using the Web Server Connector
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Publishing Your FileMaker Data with XML
  • What Is XML?
  • Why the Web?
  • More about XML
  • XML Documents Are Trees
  • FileMaker and XML
  • Using XSLT to Transform FileMaker's Output
  • Generating HTML
  • XSL So Far
  • Calculation and Computation with XSL
  • More Complex Reporting with XML
  • Advanced Sub-summary Reporting in XSL
  • Sorting
  • Multilevel Reporting
  • Displaying Hierarchical Data
  • Transforming FileMaker Data into Non-HTML Text Data
  • Resources and References
• Chapter 5: Instant Web Publishing
  • Getting Started
  • Home Page Options
  • Creating Your Own Home Page
  • Selecting a Style
  • Selecting Your Views
  • Layout Elements on the Web
  • Building a Customized IWP Application
  • Summary
• Chapter 6: Custom Web Publishing with CDML
  • Getting Started
  • Variable Tags and Replacement Tags
  • Building Applications Using CDML
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Custom Web Publishing with Lasso
  • Configuring Lasso for FileMaker
  • Building an Application with Lasso
  • A Simple Search in Lasso
  • Variables in Lasso
  • Error Handling in Lasso
  • Folding Up the Search Pages
  • Writing the Folded Page with Inlines
  • Adding More Actions to the Page
  • Adding Error Handling
  • Using Arrays and Maps to Create a Value List Library
  • Coding for Reuse: Lasso Custom Tags
  • Custom Types: Writing Object-Oriented Code in Lasso
  • Preserving State: Sessions in Lasso
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Custom Web Publishing with PHP
  • Coding in PHP--General Principles
  • Using PHP with FileMaker
  • FX: The Right Tool for the Job
  • Creating Web Applications with PHP, FX, and FileMaker
  • Summary
• Chapter 9: FileMaker and Web Services--Learning about XML Import
  • Working with a Real Web Service
  • Other Kinds of Web Services
  • FileMaker and SOAP
  • SOAP Wrap-up
  • Web Services Push
  • Summary
• Appendix: CDML Reference Guide
  • Replacement Tags
• Index
  • Index_C
  • Index_D
  • Index_E
  • Index_F
  • Index_G
  • Index_H
  • Index_I
  • Index_J-K
  • Index_L
  • Index_M
  • Index_N
  • Index_O
  • Index_P-Q
  • Index_R
  • Index_S
  • Index_T-U
  • Index_V
  • Index_W
  • Index_X
• List of Figures