myFMbutler — myFMApiLibrary for PHP, one library to rule them all

Lesterius Team has developed a PHP library to make the FileMaker Data Api 17 easier to use.

Lesterius co-creates FileMaker Platform based solutions with their customers. Sharing knowledge takes part of our DNA, that’s why we developed this library to make the FileMaker Data API easy-to-use with PHP.

We already used it for our FileMaker 16 internal projects and we improved it enough with FileMaker 17 to share it with the world.

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Why do we provide a wrapper while the data REST API already works?

To make it simple.

In our library, we’ve already coded all cURL requests. You don’t need to read the FileMaker Data API documentation to make it work, you just have to follow our documentation. Readable by every PHP developers, you can use it even if you don’t know anything about FileMaker. Download it and it’s ready.

Go to our GitHub and download it or do a composer install:

composer require myfmbutler/myfmapilibrary-for-php

See how to enable FileMaker Data Api on your FileMaker Server with this video, then create a user with the fmrest privilege and allow him to access your target data and layouts.

Here is an example that shows how to find records with credentials method login:

<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
// Link librairy to FileMalker database
dataApi = new \Lesterius\FileMakerApi\DataApi('https://test.fmconnection.com/fmi/data', 'MyDatabase');
// Log user using the credentials method
$dataApi->login('filemaker api user', 'filemaker api password', 'layout name');
// My search parameters
$query = [
    [
        'fields'  => [
            ['fieldname' => 'FirstName', 'fieldvalue' => '==Test'],
            ['fieldname' => 'LastName', 'fieldvalue' => '==Test'],
        ],
        'options' => [
            'omit' => false
        ]
    ]
];

try {
  $results = $dataApi->findRecords('layout name', $query, $sort, $offset, $limit, $portals, $scripts, $responseLayout);
} catch(\Exception $e) {
  // log exception here
}
// Show data
echo "<pre>", var_dump($results), "</pre>";
// Logout user
$dataApi->logout();

Enjoy. You can also see all the examples in the readme here.

That’s all?

Where there are no features, there is no pleasure.

We also have ideas for some new features:

• Number of bytes per request,
• Choose response format (xml, JSON, etc),
• Same library, another language,
• And more…

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Free download

Download the latest version and documentation from Github.

You can also find the product page here.