Although some good points have been made here, it seems like most people are missing a key point: by suggesting the use of FX.php, the poster was NOT suggesting the use of PHP/MySQL, rather PHP/FileMaker. So the suggestion would seem to be not be "Just do it in PHP/MySQL", but something more like "rather than arbitrarily discarding your database, why not put a more flexible and powerful front end on it?"
The moral of this story: make sure you know what's at a link, before fuming that someone suggested it =)
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Although some good points have been made here, it seems like most people are missing a key point: by suggesting the use of FX.php, the poster was NOT suggesting the use of PHP/MySQL, rather PHP/FileMaker. So the suggestion would seem to be not be "Just do it in PHP/MySQL", but something more like "rather than arbitrarily discarding your database, why not put a more flexible and powerful front end on it?"
The moral of this story: make sure you know what's at a link, before fuming that someone suggested it =)