ethangj Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Hi, I'm setting up an ecommerce store for an organization that will need to write records (for purchased membership, purchased event registration, etc) to a Filemaker 9 database ideally it would be functional with drupal or joomla, with a very flexible layout and the easier to configure and train for the database, the better what are my options? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/134164-help-deciding-what-software-to-use/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Out of curiosity, why does it have to be a filemaker database? There are much better databases out there. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/134164-help-deciding-what-software-to-use/#findComment-700148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethangj Posted November 28, 2008 Author Share Posted November 28, 2008 because the database is already in use organization-wide and i dont have the job of remaking it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/134164-help-deciding-what-software-to-use/#findComment-700811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Ahh I see. I learned filemaker before I learned mysql, but when I was using it, I was using the filemaker interface itself. I've never tried to use the database with a php/html interface. Can it even be done? Another possibility you could consider is importing the data to a different database. You should be able to do some kind of database dump with filemaker, you could then import it into mysql or postgresql or something. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/134164-help-deciding-what-software-to-use/#findComment-701430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethangj Posted November 29, 2008 Author Share Posted November 29, 2008 PHP does have filemaker support, although I'm not sure of the specifics. A data dump would have to be automated to perform daily because the organization itself is going to keep using Filemaker, so that would be quite a hassle if it is possible to configure something with php itself. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/134164-help-deciding-what-software-to-use/#findComment-701495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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