I'm a Filemaker database administrator/developer, whatever you want to call it, and most of my work is done in print, not for the web. FMP is very user-friendly with little to no coding necessary, so moving to another platform is a daunting task. But, FMP is extremely slow for web publishing and I'm not satisfied with the performance of our web applications at all. So, what is the best way to go for web databases? MySQL seems like the obvious choice, since it's inexpensive and everybody uses it, but, having no experience with any other options (i.e. sql, oracle), I'm a blank slate, and I'd rather not learn a new platform that might be obsolete in a year, or have security problems. Then I saw this thread and got really confused. MSSql Express? But anyway, I figure I'm spending a lot of time learning this, I'm not going to skimp on the budget. If any of you have used FMP and moved to another platform (or vice versa) I'd like to hear your experience. Any thoughts? TIA.
I tried using filemaker for the web a while ago, it was the worst.... very slow and not very secure at all, I ended up moving to mysql.... once you learn mysql, you'll have a good background in the sql language and can probably move between other database systems easily.... filemaker is the odd one here.... there used to be a php interface that could access filemaker databases but I never could get it to work....
So Mysql it is. Thanks for the reply, and confirming my belief that FMP is very clunky for web apops.