Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9- P5:On the other hand, it would drive me nuts if you bought this book only to discover that it didn’t address your needs. In the spirit of customer satisfaction, please read the following introduction to get a sense of where I’m coming from, and whether you might get some good use out of this book. | 50 CHAPTER 4 Building a Simple FileMaker File Creating a FileMaker File Let s get started by creating a FileMaker file called Product Catalog that will ultimately act as the database for web pages that we will build in Part III later in this book. 1. Launch FileMaker Pro. 2. You should be presented with the FileMaker Quick Start dialog box as shown in Figure . If not select New Database from the File menu. FIGURE The FileMaker Quick Start dialog box gives you easy access to a wide range of resources. 3. Click on the Create Database icon on the left side of the FileMaker Quick Start menu if it is not already active. 4. Make sure that the Create Empty Database option button is selected. 5. Click the OK button. 6. You will be asked to name the file and save it to a location on your hard drive. Name the file Product and save it to your desktop. FileMaker Pro will now create a file named Product on your desktop and present you with the Manage Database dialog box. Don t close this dialog box yet For your convenience FileMaker Pro performs a number of default actions on new files. For example by default a table named Product Catalog will be created based on the name you gave to the file. Creating a FileMaker File 51 The next step is to rename the Product Catalog table to Product. 1. Click the Tables tab in the Manage Database dialog box. You will see a single table in the list named Product Catalog. 2. The Product Catalog table should be selected but if it is not click it once to select it. 3. Edit the Table Name field to read Product . 4. Click the Change button. The results should look similar to Figure . FIGURE The Tables tab of the Manage Database dialog box provides a list view of the tables in the current file. 4 Creating Fields Now we need to add some fields to the Product table. 1. Click the Fields tab. 2. In the Field Name field type Model Number. 3. Click the Create button. You should see a field named Model Number appear in
