Last January, Jesse Barnum spent two hours showing MirrorSync 2 t0 the New Mexico User Group. Sadly, audio recording problems made the video unusable and it was never shared here. So I am happy to see the below video from FileMaker Training Videos. MirrorSync 2 is an incredible product that will synch two databases very quickly: Go […]
Integrating with WordPress is a challenge and involves different, sometimes difficult pieces: ODBC, ESS or SQL queries, data mapping, MySQL familiarity, custom functions, data type conversion (MySQL to FileMaker), and more. The WordPress MySQL data structure is, in and of itself, an interesting puzzle. Add to that developers who shoehorn their data into the […]
WordPress to FileMaker can be a challenge. Agnes Riley outlines a pretty straightforward method of connecting to Contact 7 database, a popular plugin in the WordPress world: I’m using the ContactForm7 plug-in to collect the information. Visitors can fill out the form and submit the info. The great thing is the plug-in works well, it […]
Very nice time saving trick from Aaron Gutleben. By Aaron Gutleben Recently, I was working on improving performance for a FileMaker solution that had a large web integration. It was decided that the best approach was to move a few primary tables from FileMaker to mySQL using ESS. The issue, of course, was we had […]
I haven’t tried it, so let me know how it works if you do… FileMaker can connect to SQL sources, e.g. SQL, MYSQL Information can be found here, and e free MySQL connector is available as well (MySQL 5.1 Community Edition), free registration is required. The connector supports 32/64 bit systems. More…topia.nl.
How to install and configure a 32 bit ODBC driver on a 64 bit Operating System? You have a 64 bit operating system, which usually comes with a more modern equipment, and specially a 64 bit server OS, which is most likely to be the case, and you need to install an ODBC driver that […]
Connecting FileMaker Pro and MySQL Database with MySQL ODBC driver FileMaker Pro is compatible with MySQL databases which makes it possible to merge the system with any other web platform based on PHP/SQL including Word Press? As the matter of fact, there is a long-lasting partnership between FileMaker Pro and MySQL (Oracle). There are a […]