By jeno-1 on

Hi,

I am wondering have anyone use Drupal with FileMaker Pro database?
I am running a FileMaker Pro server here and I am thinking of getting the FileMaker Pro database into Drupal for further manipulation.

Any though please share.

Thanks & Regards,
Jeno

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scoutbaker’s picture

scoutbaker commented

Drupal does not support FileMaker Pro as its database. I haven't even heard of anyone trying, but you're welcome to do your own research to see if you can find some mention of it.

All of the system requirements are in the documentation.

jeno-1’s picture

jeno-1 commented

FileMaker Pro 5.5 onwards have an ODBC interface. I've seen some discussion regarding ODBC in the forum but didn't know how it goes.

dpulavarthi’s picture

dpulavarthi commented

Hi,

We run a FM 8 server interacting with drupal as its back end database. We use fx php. But, I must warn you it affects the site performance as FM was never built to serve as a back-end database.

Good luck,
Deepti

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jeno-1 commented

Since I don't have direct access to the Filemaker Pro server. I am thinking of doing this a different way:

Setting up my local drupal server to fetch data from Filemaker Pro server and store it locally.
The problem now is that I doesn't really know how many field It would have in the Filemaker database. Is it possible to fetch the whole filemaker database (using HTTP query) and auto populate whatever fields it has?

Cheers,
Jeno

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jeno-1 commented

I am not sure I am looking at the correct thing but this is what I found:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/10/17/filemaker.html?page=3

All I wanted to do is make query to the filemaker server (through HTTP XML-RPC?) and get its output. I doesn't need to return modified data back to the filemaker server.

Sorry for being such a noob, can anyone help?

Thanks

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tedstein commented

Have you looked into the FileMaker module? I wrote a module that provides significant integration between Drupal and FileMaker.

Video of the FileMaker module (which now has _a lot_ more features):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnA09HjeNWU&feature=player_embedded

Download the FileMaker module:

http://drupal.org/project/filemaker

Thanks,
Ted