User manual FILEMAKER FMS11 CWP PHP

[. . . ] FileMaker Server 11 ® Custom Web Publishing with PHP © 2007­2010 FileMaker, Inc. 5201 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, California 95054 FileMaker and Bento are trademarks of FileMaker, Inc. The file folder logo and the Bento logo are trademarks of FileMaker, Inc. You are not authorized to make additional copies or distribute this documentation without written permission from FileMaker. [. . . ] PHP Site Assistant guides you through designing and configuring your site, and generates PHP code based on your input. PHP Site Assistant includes pre-configured themes for styling your site. Once your site's PHP code is generated, you can customize it using any plain text or PHP authoring tool. You can also use PHP Site Assistant to familiarize yourself with the basic elements of the FileMaker API for PHP, and the fundamentals of Custom Web Publishing with PHP. Depending on the options you specify, you can generate pages that enable web users to do the following: 1 1 1 1 1 1 browse one record at a time view a list of all the records in the database search the database and view the results in a list sort records add records edit and duplicate records Chapter 4 | Overview of Custom Web Publishing with PHP 25 1 delete records 1 view a summary report You also generate a home page that is linked with the other generated website pages. For detailed information, see PHP Site Assistant Help. Before using PHP Site Assistant Before using PHP Site Assistant to create your site, complete these tasks: 1. Complete all of the steps outlined in chapter 3, "Preparing databases for Custom Web Publishing. " 2. Using the FileMaker Server Admin Console, verify that the web server and the Web Publishing Engine are running. Enable Custom Web Publishing with PHP in the Web Publishing Engine that you will be using to run and test the PHP code. When connecting to a database from PHP Site Assistant, use an account with a privilege set equivalent to the set you would assign for web users. See FileMaker Pro Help for information on accounts and privilege sets. See PHP Site Assistant Help for information on connecting to the database. Starting PHP Site Assistant PHP Site Assistant is installed on the master machine in your FileMaker Server deployment. You can use PHP Site Assistant from any computer that has network access to the master machine. When you start PHP Site Assistant, FileMaker Server uses Java Web Start technology to download PHP Site Assistant to your client computer. PHP Site Assistant runs on your client computer and connects with FileMaker Server only when it needs to access a database. Start PHP Site Assistant in one of these ways: 1 Start a web browser and go to the FileMaker Server Web Publishing Tools page: http://<host>:16000/tools where <host> is the master machine in your FileMaker Server deployment. On the Tools page, click Start PHP Site Assistant. 1 In FileMaker Pro Advanced, choose File menu > Open Remote to open a database hosted on FileMaker Server that has the fmphp extended privilege enabled. Choose Tools menu > Launch PHP Assistant. 1 In FileMaker Server Admin Console, choose Server menu > Launch PHP Site Assistant. You can also click the PHP Site Assistant icon in the FileMaker Server Admin Console toolbar to start PHP Site Assistant. (Mac OS) Click Trust to continue. 26 FileMaker Server Custom Web Publishing with PHP 3. In the create shortcuts dialog box, click Yes to create a shortcut to PHP Site Assistant on your computer. Mac OS: Specify a name and a location for the shortcut and click Save. [. . . ] These requests are routed from the web server directly to the Web Publishing Core. Because the FileMaker API for PHP uses HTTP POST to access the Web Publishing Core, the log file does not record details about the PHP requests. This file is located in the following directory on the Web Publishing Engine component of the FileMaker Server deployment: 1 IIS (Windows): <drive>:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Logs\wpc_access_log. txt where <drive> is the primary drive from which the system is started. 1 Apache (Mac OS): /Library/FileMaker Server/Logs/wpc_access_log. txt 48 FileMaker Server Custom Web Publishing with PHP Troubleshooting your site If you have trouble viewing or using your site, verify the following: 1 The extended privileges in the database are set for Custom Web Publishing with PHP and assigned to a user account. See "Enabling Custom Web Publishing with PHP for databases" on page 17. 1 1 1 1 The database is hosted and opened by FileMaker Server. [. . . ]