Connecting to FileMaker from Wordpress

on Jul 05 in Blogging, FileMaker, General, 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.

Comments

  1. skully

    Aug 2nd, 2005

    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?

  2. Denis

    Aug 3rd, 2005

    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…

  3. POS Software

    Aug 18th, 2005

    Well, I fully agree with your comment. :-)

    BTW: I visited your blog earlier today and I just wanted to congratulate you on a well presented, and informative resource.

    It’s not often that I come across a web site that offers a wealth of quality. ;-)

    Martin (aka POS Software Man)

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