Monthly Archive for June, 2011

Crossing Drupal Street III

Published on June 28, 2011. 1 Comment

This is where it may get hairy…

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During the last episode we learned that Drupal is most powerful when the knowledgeable developer uses plug-ins to extend the abilities of the web site.  Some of the most useful plug-ins are CCK (adds the ability to create custom fields), Fivestar (adds a voting widget to your website) and Views (a powerful way to view data from different nodes).  We used the CCK to create a couple of new fields in the Things content type.

This episode we will show a basic technique to display information.  Lets say you want to see a list of content types.  To use FileMaker-speak, lets say you want to see a list of related records.

Continue reading ‘Crossing Drupal Street III’

 
Published in Integration and Tips and tricks by Jerry Salem. Tags: Tags: , , .

FileMaker Feud at DevCon 2011

Published on June 16, 2011. 0 Comments

If you are going to DevCon 2011, and are a fan of the Family Feud, you might want to check out the FileMaker version of the popular game show – FileMaker Feud.

Whether you want to be a spectator or an actual contestant is your choice, but MightyData (who is sponsoring the event) would love for your answers to be part of the survey.

You can check out all the details at MightyData’s FileMaker Feud.

 
Published in Conferences, DevCon and FileMaker by Jason Mundok. Tags: Tags: , , .

FMPHP: Passing an array of values and performance testing on adding records

Published on June 7, 2011. 0 Comments

In my previous post about the difference between the createRecord() and newAddCommand() functions in PHP, Anders Monsen asked in comments:

I’ve never tried the createRecord method, but the ability to send an array of field values in the method seems very interesting. How would you format this data in the $values array?
$rec =& $fm->createRecord(‘Form View’, $values);
The PHP API lacks good examples of each of the methods in the class, and this post brings attention to an alternate method to set data, though I’m not certain when it might be useful, aside from bypassing the large XML array in the $result. Might be worth a try to see the differences in performance.

So two worthy questions, for which I have answers! Continue reading ‘FMPHP: Passing an array of values and performance testing on adding records’

 
Published in FileMaker, Integration and Tips and tricks by Robin Story. Tags: Tags: , , , .