Chapter 15Editing and Deleting Records

Editing and deleting records is the next logical step in working with FileMaker data. Editing or deleting records generally involves a two-step process of finding the record first and then performing actions on it.

Overview of the Record Object

The FileMaker API allows you to access data within the database using a variety of find methods that all return a set of records to the PHP application. As you already know, the returned record set allows access to the records within it using the getRecords function, which returns an array of records. This array of records is a special FileMaker API object that allows you to perform a variety of functions on it. One such function that you are already familiar with ...

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