Connecting to FileMaker from WordPress
I notice in the search logs that the blog here gets hit a lot by people looking for “FileMaker to WordPress” or “Filemaker wordpress” and while I am not particularly certain on to the exact requirements for getting WordPress data to FileMaker (should be easy with FX.php and a FM7 SQL Script) having data go from FileMaker to WordPress is more interesting. FileMaker has been used for a while as a customizable database for content management systems, but WordPress is teetering on the edge of becoming something similar. That said, it’s a piece of cake to have FM send info for posting to a WordPress blog.
Simply put: setup WordPress to check for blog posting via emails (click for more info); next, set up FileMaker to send data to your WordPress email address either by a FileMaker plugin (which should be unnecessary) or just by using the Send Mail script step in any FileMaker script. Since they finally fixed this step in version 6 (I believe), no plugins should really be needed; last, ummm… that’s it.
I haven’t really tried this, but I see no reason for it not to work (*famous last words*). Ask questions if you hit a snag trying this one out, I’ll answer as best as I can.
I am looking to use filemaker with wordpress instead of mysql. any ideas? anyplace I should go to find out how to set it up?
Skully, I would suggest hooking up with some of the WordPress developers (check out wordpress.org) and seeing if you can replace calls to the WordPress MySQL database with equivalent calls to a FileMaker database. But you need all the field definitions… Maybe see if FMRobot can translate the MySQL database to the FileMaker format. Hope this helps…
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Martin (aka POS Software Man)
I figured it out using XML-RPC and SmartPill PHP Edition.
Check out my blog here: Connecting FileMaker and your WordPress Blog