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With FileMaker Server, you can publish your FileMaker Pro databases on the web as listed in this table.
Note For Linux, Custom Web Publishing with PHP and XML is not supported. For Windows and macOS, a PHP engine and FileMaker PHP API are not installed with FileMaker Server. For more information, see PHP no longer bundled with FileMaker Server in the Claris Engineering Blog.
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Access FileMaker data using the FileMaker API for PHP in PHP web applications |
Custom Web Publishing with PHP |
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Send HTTP requests along with XML query commands and parameters and retrieve FileMaker data as an XML document |
Custom Web Publishing with XML |
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Quickly and easily publish FileMaker Pro databases on the web that look and work much like they do in FileMaker Pro |
FileMaker WebDirect |
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Allow web services to access data in FileMaker Pro databases using an API compliant with the representational state transfer (REST) architecture |
FileMaker Data API |
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Allow web services to access data in FileMaker Pro databases using Open Data Protocol (OData) |
OData API |