Pleasant Grove, Utah, February 25th, 2008 -- Chris Hansen, the creator of FX.php™, has updated the popular tool to version 4.5.  This newest version of FX.php is available for immediate download at http://www.iviking.org/downloads/fx.zip

New features and fixes in FX.php version 4.5 include:

* Fixed a problem with SSL connections to FileMaker® Server.

* Added the FX Fuzzy Debugger and related support.

* Added new, simpler syntax for DoFXAction().

* Simplified and expanded the values used to specify the target datasource's type.

* Added a license addendum.

A highlight of the new release, the FX Fuzzy Debugger, has been in the works for nearly 2 years and will be a boon to FileMaker developers working with PHP.  As an example, compare the following FileMaker error: Error Code 102 (Field is missing); with the output for the same error from the fuzzy debugger:

Begin FX Fuzzy Debugger Error processing...
Error Code 102:
Field is missing
Double check the spelling of the fields specified, and be sure they're on the layout specified.
Also, be sure that the user name and password combination specified has permission to access the specified fields.
You entered "First_Namer", did you mean "First_Name"?
You entered "Phone_1 ", did you mean "Phone_1"?
FX Fuzzy Debugger error processing finished.

This tool is not only integrated into the latest version of FX.php, but most features work with the FileMaker API for PHP as well!

Special thanks to Nick Fowlie for spotting the SSL issue, and supplying the fix; to Chris Moyer for introducing me to levenshtein distances; to Lance Hallberg for helping me think various bits through; and to the many others who helped with this release.  For a full list of credits, go to http://www.iviking.org/downloads/CHANGES.txt

iViking.org was established by Chris Hansen in 2001 to create, distribute, and maintain FX.php.

Chris Hansen is a Senior Web Applications Developer for Nifty Technologies.  In 2001 he co-authored FX.php, an open-source class for working with FileMaker data via PHP, and has maintained it ever since. FX.php is freely available at iviking.org.  Chris has been a speaker at the FileMaker Developer's Conference and is certified with FileMaker 7 and 8 (with 9 certification in process.)  He has been programming in whatever language came along for over 20 years. Expertise and interests include PHP, Java, HTML, FileMaker, MySQL, PostgeSQL, OpenBase, CSS, JavaScript, stuffing PC innards into Mac cases, and so on.

FX.php and the FX.php logo are Copyright 2001-2008 by Chris Hansen.  FX.php is Trademark 2005 by Chris Hansen.
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