Custom Web Publishing with XML and XSLT
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introducing Custom Web Publishing
- Chapter 2 About Custom Web Publishing with XML and XSLT
- Chapter 3 Preparing databases for Custom Web Publishing
- Chapter 4 Accessing XML data with the Web Publishing Engine
- Using Custom Web Publishing with XML
- General process for accessing XML data from the Web Publishing Engine
- About the URL syntax for XML data and container objects
- Accessing XML data via the Web Publishing Engine
- Using the fmsresultset grammar
- Using other FileMaker XML grammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Using FileMaker query strings to request XML data
- Switching layouts for an XML response
- Understanding how an XML request is processed
- Using server-side and client-side processing of stylesheets
- Troubleshooting XML document access
- Chapter 5 Introduction to Custom Web Publishing with XSLT
- Chapter 6 Developing FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Using XSLT stylesheets with the Web Publishing Engine
- About the FileMaker XSLT Extension Function Reference
- About the FileMaker XSLT Starter Solution
- About the URL syntax for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- About the URL syntax for FileMaker container objects in XSLT solutions
- Using query strings in FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Specifying an XML grammar for a FileMaker XSLT stylesheet
- About namespaces and prefixes for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Using statically defined query commands and query parameters
- Setting text encoding for requests
- Specifying an output method and encoding
- About the encoding of XSLT stylesheets
- Processing XSLT requests that do not query FileMaker Server
- Using tokens to pass information between stylesheets
- Using the FileMaker XSLT extension functions and parameters
- About the FileMaker-specific XSLT parameters set by the Web Publishing Engine
- Accessing the query information in a request
- Obtaining client information
- Using the Web Publishing Engine base URI parameter
- Using the authenticated base URI parameter
- Loading additional documents
- Using the layout information for a database in a stylesheet
- Using content buffering
- Using Web Publishing Engine sessions to store information between requests
- Using the session extension functions
- Sending email messages from the Web Publishing Engine
- Using the header functions
- Using the cookie extension functions
- Using the string manipulation extension functions
- Comparing strings using Perl 5 regular expressions
- Checking for values in a field formatted as a checkbox
- Using the date, time, and day extension functions
- Checking the error status of extension functions
- Using logging
- Using server-side processing of scripting languages
- Chapter 7 Staging, testing, and monitoring a site
- Appendix A Valid names used in query strings
- About the query commands and parameters
- Query command reference
- -dbnames (Database names) query command
- -delete (Delete record) query command
- -dup (Duplicate record) query command
- -edit (Edit record) query command
- -find, -findall, or -findany (Find records) query commands
- -findquery (Compound find) query command
- -layoutnames (Layout names) query command
- -new (New record) query command
- -process (Process XSLT stylesheets)
- -scriptnames (Script names) query command
- -view (View layout information) query command
- Query parameter reference
- -db (Database name) query parameter
- -delete.related (Portal records delete) query parameter
- -encoding (Encoding XSLT request) query parameter
- -field (Container field name) query parameter
- fieldname (Non-container field name) query parameter
- fieldname.op (Comparison operator) query parameter
- -grammar (Grammar for XSLT stylesheets) query parameter
- -lay (Layout) query parameter
- -lay.response (Switch layout for response) query parameter
- -lop (Logical operator) query parameter
- -max (Maximum records) query parameter
- -modid (Modification ID) query parameter
- -query (Compound find request) query parameter
- -recid (Record ID) query parameter
- -relatedsets.filter (Filter portal records) query parameter
- -relatedsets.max (Limit portal records) query parameter
- -script (Script) query parameter
- -script.param (Pass parameter to Script) query parameter
- -script.prefind (Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.prefind.param (Pass parameter to Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.presort (Script before Sort) query parameter
- -script.presort.param (Pass parameter to Script before Sort) query parameter
- -skip (Skip records) query parameter
- -sortfield (Sort field) query parameter
- -sortorder (Sort order) query parameter
- -stylehref (Style href) query parameter
- -styletype (Style type) query parameter
- -token.[string] (Pass values between XSLT stylesheets) query parameter
- Appendix B Error codes for Custom Web Publishing
- Index
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Introducing Custom Web Publishing 13
Custom Web Publishing with PHP
The FileMaker API for PHP provides an object-oriented PHP interface to FileMaker databases. The
FileMaker API for PHP enables both data and logic stored in a FileMaker Pro database to be accessed and
published on the web, or exported to other applications. The API also supports complex and compound find
commands for extracting and filtering data stored in FileMaker Pro databases.
Originally designed as a procedural programming language, PHP has been enhanced as an object-oriented
web development language. PHP provides programming language functionality for constructing virtually
any type of logic within a site page. For example, you can use conditional logic constructs to control page
generation, data routing, or workflow. PHP also provides for site administration and security.
In addition, you can use FileMaker PHP Site Assistant to create PHP code that contains all of the necessary
prerequisites and functions for properly accessing data in a FileMaker Pro database. PHP Site Assistant
generates a multiple-page website that enables web users to search a database, view a list of records, browse
records, sort records, add records, edit records, duplicate records, delete records, and view a summary
report. FileMaker developers who have little PHP experience can use PHP Site Assistant to generate a
complete PHP website. PHP developers who have little experience with FileMaker can use PHP Site
Assistant to understand the FileMaker API for PHP objects and methods.
Custom Web Publishing with XML and XSLT
FileMaker Custom Web Publishing with XML enables you to send query requests to a FileMaker Pro
database hosted by FileMaker Server, and display, modify, or manipulate the resulting data. Using an HTTP
request with the appropriate query commands and parameters, you can retrieve FileMaker data as an XML
document. You can then export the XML data to other applications, or apply an XSLT stylesheet to the XML
data.
FileMaker Custom Web Publishing with XSLT lets you transform, filter, or format XML data for web
browsers or other applications. You can:
1 use an XSLT stylesheet to transform the data between a FileMaker XML grammar and another XML
grammar in other applications or databases.
1 filter the data by controlling which database fields are published by the stylesheet.
1 format how the data is presented in a web page, and control how the web user interacts with the data.
The Web Publishing Engine uses your stylesheets to obtain data from a FileMaker database whenever a web
user sends an HTTP request and a URL that references one of your XSLT stylesheets. The Web Publishing
Engine uses a stylesheet to transform and format the XML data, and generates the resulting HTML page
that the web user can work with.
In addition, you can use FileMaker XSLT Site Assistant to create basic XSLT stylesheets as a starting point
for Custom Web Publishing with XSLT. XSLT Site Assistant generates stylesheets for pages that search the
database, browse one record at a time, list the records in the database, sort records, add records, edit records,
duplicate records, delete records, and display a summary report.