Chapter 11What Is the API for PHP?
Now that you are familiar with PHP and have had a chance to play around with this web publishing technology, it is time to introduce the long-awaited star of this book. It is a library of code that has changed the way people think of web publishing with the FileMaker database — none other than the FileMaker API for PHP.
What Is an API?
This cryptic name usually invokes in seasoned programmers a torrent of mixed feelings and memories that include lengthy manuals and frustration with strange functions. The term “API” stands for “application programming interface,” which means a layer of code that allows two applications to exchange information in a standard and predictable manner. In this case, the two applications ...
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