Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
Custom web publishing using CDML 4-15
Three examples are included with FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited to
give you ideas on how to organize a site. You can also use them as
templates and modify them for your own sites.
Looking at the three CDML examples
The FMWSC and Tools CD includes three CDML examples that
demonstrate ways to publish your databases on the Web using
CDML. These examples are located in the CDML folder:
FMWSC and Tools > CDML > CDML Examples
To examine the three CDML examples:
1. Copy the CDML Examples folder and its contents into the root
level of the Web folder, located inside the FileMaker Pro 5.5
application folder. The contents include one default.htm file, an
Images folder, and the Employee Database, Guest Book, and
Shopping Cart folders.
2. In FileMaker Pro, open each database file inside the three example
folders and make sure that each one is shared via the Web
Companion. See “Enabling the Web Companion” on page 3-3 and
“Sharing the database via the Web” on page 3-5 for information.)
3. In your web browser, type http://localhost or your
computer’s IP address followed by
/CDML Examples/ and press
Enter.
http://localhost/CDML Examples/
The Web Companion displays the default.htm file located inside the
CDML Examples folder.
For information on setting up your computer as a localhost, see
“Testing your site without a network connection” on page 3-18.
4. Click the links on the Web Companion Demonstration page to go
to each of the three examples.
5. As you explore each example site, view the HTML source on each
page to see how CDML is used.
Be sure to examine the FileMaker Pro CGI commands in the HREF
links or HTML forms. (See “Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests
using CDML” on page 4-3.)
Note To see the CDML replacement tags, open the example files
directly in the browser (without using the web site example links).
Employee Database example
The Employee Database example is designed to demonstrate the
most widely used CDML tags. It shows how to
1 search for records in the database
1 select sorting options
Click a link to go to the default.htm file for each CDML example