Chapter 22Debugging Connectivity Issues
In the real world, sites go down, databases change locations, and something always seem to go wrong. While we all hope that our projects will be functioning smoothly for years into the future, it never hurts to be prepared for your database going offline. There are many reasons for a database connection to suddenly stop working and constantly return the FileMaker_Error object instead of the FileMaker_ ResultSet; the most common ones are outlined first and should solve 95 percent of your connectivity issues. The bulk of this chapter focuses on debugging the actual FileMaker_Error object and figuring out the issue with it through inspection of internal variables.
Common Connectivity Issues
The following are ...
Get FileMaker Web Publishing: A Complete Guide to Using the API for PHP now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
