Update FileMaker Database API PHP Code to Retrieve Query String
Hello,
I have a little php site created by a wizard software that pulls data out of FileMaker. I have a current page that currently retrieves the record id out of the url to look up the database record and display the fields from the record. I want to make a slight modification that will allow me to instead send a PO parameter that would instead look up the record by the PO number instead of the record id when PO=12345 is sent in the query string. I still want the existing functionality but need to know how to make it either look up record id or po number. Here is the existing php section that pulls out the record id.
<?php /** * FileMaker PHP Site Assistant Generated File */ require_once 'fmview.php'; require_once 'FileMaker.php'; require_once 'error.php'; $cgi = new CGI(); $cgi->storeFile(); $databaseName = 'SalesFM7'; $layoutName = 'XSLEditLayout'; $userName = $cgi->get('userName'); $passWord = $cgi->get('passWord'); $fm = & new FileMaker(); $fm->setProperty('database', $databaseName); $fm->setProperty('username', $userName); $fm->setProperty('password', $passWord); ExitOnError($fm); $layout = $fm->getLayout($layoutName); ExitOnError($layout); // formats for dates and times $displayDateFormat = '%m/%d/%Y'; $displayTimeFormat = '%I:%M:%S %P'; $displayDateTimeFormat = '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %P'; $submitDateOrder = 'mdy'; $recid = $cgi->get('-recid'); if (!isset($recid)) $recid = 1; $record = $fm->getRecordById($layoutName, $recid); ExitOnError($record); class EmptyRecord { function getRelatedSet($relationName) { return array(new EmptyRecord()); } function getField($field, $repetition = 0) { } function getRecordId() { } }?>
Thanks, I tried it but it doesn't find the record when searching by po still. It does still find the recid.
jausions
It depends if you have both -recid and PO parameters in your URLs. You may want to reverse the code to have PO takes precedence over -recid when testing with isset(). Also, maybe you're missing some parameters in the URL to trigger the code, have you tried adding the "-action=browse" parameter? For instance:
Thank you. You may be onto something. I just am not that proficient with php code. I did the -action=browse and then put the po code in both places and removed the recid code and then it searches by po. I tried to put it back and now it is giving me php errors on the recid version saying undefined variable. Do you know precisely how the code should look to just expect one or the other but not both? I assume the code with the && is looking for both at the same time?
Thank you. Now I finally understand what the exclamation point is doing. It is a negative operator saying this "is not". Correct?
Anyway I updated the code and now it partially works. If I start with a rec id it will pull up the item by recid. If I then change it to a po it will pull up the po which is good. However if I then try to pull up something by recid again it just defaults to the last po everytime and will no longer let me look up something by recid unless I log out and then log back in and search by recid again? Any ideas how to fix that?
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