MuchDev Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) So I have a client that is pretty entrenched with a filemaker database and was wondering if there was anyone whom had created a filemaker module for processwire. I located a pretty well featured module for drupal and from looking around it I see that it seems fairly compatible without any hacking. So if there isn't one out there yet I suppose I will be porting this one over from drupal into processwire. Any other recommendations? I am also considering just creating a simpler version that would just work directly with the database and fetch the records and format a csv, then relate images using the admin interface. Edited February 8, 2015 by kongondo Moved this here as the main module board is a support forum for existing modules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Knoll Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I... don't see the sense of such a module? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostKobrakai Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I just viewed the video of the mentioned drupal module and I can see, that this would be useful for the client, because his workflow doesn't have to change. Also using only a single database instead of some kind of mirroring is nice, too. If you want to do this the most flexible way, you could do a set of extended Fieldtypes (text/date/image, what filemaker offers) based on the core ones. But you'll change the methods which interact with the database, like sleep- and wakeupValue and so on. I don't know how complex this would be, but you would get kinda nativ processwire objects out of it. The less elaborate version would be just 3 new fieldtypes, Fieldgroup, Field and Portal. If I understand it the right way, there's really not more about this databases. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuchDev Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 I know it does seem a bit wacky, but this is for a company that is used to their database system and is just getting use to the site that I built them. I really feel that the way that they work, if I were able to provide them a simple to use module that could interface with their existing database directly from processwire that they would have the easiest time getting the hang of things. I also would really like to build this as well, I think it would be a helpful tool to have for others. My goal is to port this beast as straight across as I can manage, but I may just end up using it as an example. I guess we will see once I dive into this later on in the week. I will try and keep you guys updated . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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