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- FileMaker Server 9 Help
- About FileMaker Server
- New features in FileMaker Server 9
- Deploying FileMaker Server
- Starting Admin Console
- Hosting databases
- Hosting websites
- Starting and stopping FileMaker Server
- Configuring general settings
- Configuring Database Server settings
- Configuring web publishing settings
- Administering clients
- Administering databases
- Using ODBC and JDBC with FileMaker Server
- Monitoring FileMaker Server
- Managing plug-ins
- Securing your data
- Scheduling administrative tasks
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Configuring web publishing settings PHP web publishing settings
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ILEMAKER SERVER 9 HELP 80
PHP web publishing settings
Custom Web Publishing with PHP enables PHP web applications to access data using the
FileMaker API
for PHP. You can configure how the Web Publishing Engine responds to the API.
You can specify the following PHP Publishing settings on the Web Publishing > PHP tab:
• Enable PHP publishing.
• Enable pre-validation of record data.
• Select the default character encoding.
• Select the language used with PHP publishing.
Note Changing any of these settings requires restarting the Web Publishing Engine.
For more information about hosting a PHP website, see Hosting PHP websites
(page 45). For more
information about creating a PHP website and using the FileMaker API for PHP, see F
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ERVER CUSTOM WEB PUBLISHING WITH PHP on the Start Page.
To specify PHP Publishing settings:
1. Choose Web Publishing > PHP tab.
2. Click Save.
Note The FileMaker API for PHP and a supported PHP engine must be installed on the web server
for Custom Web Publishing with PHP to work. For more information, see Enabling technologies for
web publishing (page 16).
Related topics
Administering databases (page 93)
Administering clients
(page 88)
General web publishing settings
(page 79)
To Do this
Enable Custom Web Publishing with
PHP
Select Enable PHP publishing.
This setting must be enabled to configure the other
settings in this tab.
Enable pre-validation of record data
on the web server
Select Enable record data pre-validation.
Enables the FileMaker API for PHP to validate record
data before committing a record to the Database
Server. To use this feature, your PHP code must call
the validate() method where necessary and
respond to validation errors.
Select the default character
encoding
For Default Character Encoding, choose an
encoding.
The encoding you choose should match the encoding
you use in the <head> section of your PHP files.
The PHP default language is Latin-1. The FileMaker
Server default is Unicode. Use UTF-8 if your data
contains non-Latin characters.
Select the PHP publishing error
message language
For Language, choose a language for error messages
returned by the FileMaker API for PHP.