Chapter 6. Viewing FileMaker Data
IN THIS CHAPTER
Introduction
There are four ways to interact with FileMaker in the context of web publishing. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. It’s outside the scope of this book to do them all justice, but I want to at least call them out here so that you’re aware of your web publishing options:
• Static
• Instant Web Publishing (IWP)
• Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Static
What I mean by static web publishing with FileMaker is this: transforming FileMaker data into some usable format and outputting the data as a static document, which is then placed on the web server. This method has several obvious advantages:
• The ...
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