Scodigo, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of our public beta for the next version of SmartPill PHP Edition (TM). Available for download @ http://www.scodigo.com/support/downloads.

What Is SmartPill PHP Edition(TM)?

SmartPill does one simple but very powerful thing; it allows you to run PHP code and return the results back to FileMaker. Putting the power of PHP inside FileMaker opens a whole new world of possibilities. Visit PHP's website to view a complete list of functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/funcref.php.

Just a few of the things you can do:

- Send and receive email
- Send and receive files using FTP
- Get URLs (with SSL support)
- Read and write to Active or Open Directory with LDAP functions
- Communicate with web services
- Encrypt and decrypt your data
- Execute shell commands and return the results
- XML, XSL and XPath functions
- Read and write to files on disk
- Connect to MySQL databases
- Utilize the power of regular expressions
- Access an extensive set of string functions
- Read and write zip files
- Create and manipulate images
- Read EXIF data from image files

And with SmartPill's PHP Extension, you can interact with FileMaker from within your PHP code to:

- Evaluate FileMaker calculations
- Perform scripts
- Execute SQL
- Create application level variables
- Prompt for file and folder locations using standard OS dialogs
- Show progress bars

What's New In Version 2.0?

- New PHP_LoadFunctions function allows you to load your own plug-in functions (or functions supplied by Scodigo or other developers).

- New PHP_LoadFunctionsFromURL is just like PHP_LoadFunctions except it allows you to load functions from an HTTP server instead of from disk. This allows for centralized distribution and management of functions.

- New PHP_UnloadFunctions allows you to unload all functions that have been loaded.

New PHP_GetLastCode function returns the PHP code that was last executed (very helpful for development and troubleshooting).
- New fm_file_select_file, fm_file_select_folder and fm_file_save_file functions allow you to prompt the user for file and folder locations using standard OS dialogs.

- New fm_new_progress_bar, fm_close_progress_bar, fm_update_progress_bar, fm_progress_bar_position, fm_progress_bar_timeout, fm_progress_bar_control functions allow you to display progress bars.

- New PHP constants now included to make it easy to determine various file paths from within your PHP code:
FM_DESKTOP_PATH
FM_DOCUMENTS_PATH
FM_EXTENSIONS_PATH
FM_PHP_SUPPORT_PATH
FM_PHPX_PATH
FM_PREFERENCES_PATH
FM_TEMPORARY_PATH

- New FileMaker extension errors:
900 Error number must be greater than or equal to 1000
901 Script triggering is disabled
902 Progress bars are disabled
903 Progress bar already exists
904 Progress bar doesn't exist

- SSH2 extension complied in!

- The fileName parameter in PHP_ExecuteToContainer now supports Unicode.
New error to explicitly determine that a PHP parse error occurred:
202 PHP parse error

fm_perform_script corrected to be of type mixed (returns NULL when script triggering is disabled).

- Existing license holders will need to purchase an upgrade for this version (unless your license was purchased on July 14, 2008 or later).
Public Beta

Keep in mind that this is a beta release and should not be used in production. A beta license is included in the download that will allow you to use the beta version through September 1, 2008.

Direct download links:

Mac OSX Intel: http://www.scodigo.com/downloads/ smartpill/beta/SP_PHP_BETA_200_Intel.zip
Mac OSX PPC: http://www.scodigo.com/downloads/ smartpill/beta/SP_PHP_BETA_200_PPC.zip
Windows: http://www.scodigo.com/downloads/ smartpill/beta/SP_PHP_BETA_200_Win.zip

Contact

Micah Woods
Scodigo, Inc.
2602 Carlyle Dr.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Phone: (269) 349-1175
Web: http://www.scodigo.com