Extracting data from FileMaker for use on a webpage has been possible for years using various methods, including the PHP API. With the release of FileMaker 17, however, FileMaker introduced the Data API, allowing developers to interact with a database using industry standard REST methods. If you've never used the Data API before, you might be wondering how to get started. In this post, we're going to show you a very simple way of getting data from a FileMaker database, using the Data API and PHP.

How to take advantage of web services' webhooks within a FileMaker database

More and more online services are utilizing webhooks as a resource-light way to respond to an event, often times pushing around some data. So if we as FileMaker developers want to take advantage of these webhooks, how can we go about it? Well, dig in and find out!