What are some common challenges faced when transferring text data between Filemaker and PHP scripts, and how can these be overcome effectively?

One common challenge when transferring text data between FileMaker and PHP scripts is ensuring proper encoding and decoding to prevent data corruption. This can be overcome effectively by using functions like base64_encode and base64_decode in PHP to encode and decode the text data before transferring it.

// Encode text data before transferring from FileMaker to PHP
$encoded_data = base64_encode($text_data_from_filemaker);

// Decode text data received from PHP in FileMaker
$decoded_data = base64_decode($text_data_from_php);