[...]... for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor,” and PHP pages end with the php filename extension This is important because Apache recognizes php files and knows to hand them off to the PHP processor for handling I cover PHP in detail in Chapter 3, “Introduction to PHP, ” so for now just remember that you can write special web pages with PHP to generate dynamic HTML for Apache Databases The final piece of our website... a FileMaker database file, setting up and configuring the FileMaker Server software, and using the PHP Site Assistant tool Part III, Publishing FileMaker Data on the Web, ” focuses on how to use the FileMaker application programming interface (API) for PHP to integrate FileMaker data into a website in a variety of ways, including creating, editing, and deleting Introduction 3 records; displaying and. .. supposed to sit there listening for and responding to requests from web browsers, which it does extremely well 16 CHAPTER 1 How Web Publishing Works 7 PHP reads the page 8 PHP realizes that it needs the product list from FileMaker 9 PHP requests the product list from FileMaker 10 FileMaker returns the product list to PHP as raw data 11 PHP formats the raw data as HTML 12 PHP returns the HTML to Apache... title and author as well as your name and phone or email address I will carefully review your comments and share them with the author and editors who worked on the book Email: feedback@samspublishing.com Mail: Greg Wiegand Associate Publisher Sams Publishing 800 East 96 th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240 USA Reader Services Visit our website and register this book at www.informit.com/title /97 806723 295 00... blank PART I Basics of Web Publishing IN THIS PART CHAPTER 1 How Web Publishing Works 7 CHAPTER 2 Introduction to HTML 17 CHAPTER 3 Introduction to PHP 31 This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 How Web Publishing Works IN THIS CHAPTER What Do I Mean by Web Publishing, Anyway? Simple Website in Five Steps Anatomy of a URL Smart Web Pages Databases What Do I Mean by Web Publishing, Anyway? If... takes If you are doing web publishing with FileMaker, I’m confident that you can wring a lot of useful information out of this little book And if I’m wrong, maybe you can at least kill a few bugs with it Please feel free to contact me with thoughts, questions, suggestions, errata, and so on You can reach me through my website at http://jonathanstark.com/contact .php Happy web publishing! Jonathan Stark... Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker is broken into four parts, each relatively independent of the others This structure should allow you to skip any sections of the book that cover topics with which you are already familiar Part I, “Basics of Web Publishing, ” provides an overview of the architecture of the web, explains how to write HTML documents, and covers the most important features of the PHP. .. as HTML 12 PHP returns the HTML to Apache 13 Apache returns the HTML to the browser As with HTML and PHP, working with FileMaker data is a complex topic, which I cover in detail in Part III, Publishing FileMaker Data on the Web. ” For now, you just need to understand that PHP is the middleman between Apache and FileMaker Summary I feel compelled to reiterate that what I am saying here is about as oversimplified... working with related data and portals; and re-creating a FileMaker layout on the web Part IV, “More Information,” consists of more detailed and esoteric information pertaining to performance tuning, security concerns, and error handling and prevention Conventions Used in This Book There are a few conventions used throughout this book that you should be aware of Web Pages Obviously, there are lots of web. .. yet esoteric topics to notes that are called out 2 Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 throughout the book and in the appendixes in Part IV It’s stuff that you need to know, but that I felt would have obscured the point of the examples in other sections of the book had it been included there This book essentially covers three topics: HTML, PHP, and FileMaker I have taken pains to start at the very . Jonathan Stark FileMaker ® 9 PHP Web Publishing with and 800 East 96 th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 Copyright © 2008 by Sams Publishing All. editing, and deleting Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 2 records; displaying and uploading images; working with related data and portals; and re-creating a FileMaker layout on the web. 166 9 Working with Images 167 Introduction 167 Embedding Images in a Container Field 167 Storing Image URLs in a Text Field 168 Recommendation 168 Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 vi Embedding