Why not just use the FileMaker Web Server. It seems counter-productive
to try to use CF. I believe that Lasso is the FileMaker language for the
web (don't hold me to that)?
FileMaker, depending who you talk to, is not a relational database,
it's a flat-file structure, similar to Approach.
At 11:48 AM 03/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I cannot say for sure, and I would love to know if anyone has done this, but
>I do know even the newest version of FMP 5 has very limited ODBC support.
>There is some sort of native XML support which seems to be a workaround.
>I'd reccomend checking out the Filemaker web site. There is a white paper on
>setting up an eccomerce shopping cart web site with FMP as the database. The
>FMP people jumped through all sorts of hoops, and actually wrote a custom
>java servlet to communicate between the two.
>
>jon
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rick Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:29 AM
>Subject: Can CF work with a FileMakerPro database?
>
>
> > I've been asked if I can interface with a FileMaker database using CFS. I
> > understand that the 5.0 version of FileMaker does support ODBC
>connections.
> > I would then assume there wouldn't be any problems working with the
> > information in this type of database but I would like someone to confirm
> > that for me. Can anybody verify that this is a feasible solution to use CF
> > to interface with a FileMaker Pro 5 database? Is there anything I should
>be
> > aware of before I commit to this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
>
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