PHP applications are script generators that utilize locally stored PHP code libraries and command line interface (CLI) executable to process data. Generated scripts can be configured to communicate with practically any database, file system, e-mail server or web server out there by using PHP's extraordinarily popular open source code libraries.
Utilizing a FileMaker database as a programmable script generator like this can really help to cost-effectively solve problems and simplify complex business processes, especially those requiring any combination of advanced calculations, relational look-ups, conditional formatting, custom data validation or improvement, data parsing, data encryption, secure communication, command line interaction, information routing, or advanced printing.
  • use PHP's vast selection of open source processing capabilities 
  • precisely modify SQL query syntax specific to target data sources
  • look-up, merge, and format information from different data sources
  • deploy as applications or runtime clients for multi-user systems
  • output pixel-perfect print jobs, PDF files, e-mail or SMS messages
Super fast solution development, easy-to-understand code, incredibly versatile, fast and secure, with extremely low deployment costs. Try it, I think you're going to like it!