Re: [Refdb-users] cannot add records!

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Matt,

Matt Price writes:
 > welll..  I guess I need to figure out whether I most want to learn c, XSLT,
 > or Perl...!  I actually have an interim solution in PHP that I should
 > be able to throw together pretty quickly (stealing someone else's
 > code, and adapting it to the refdb db structure; this will be
 > mysql-specific, but should be readily adaptable to PostgreSQL with a
 > quick pattern-replace on the php code).  When it's more or
 > less working I'll let folks know.   
 > 

I think I've mentioned it previously, but I wouldn't access the
database directly from your PHP code. In order to make best use of the
data you'd have to implement a lot of wacky SQL queries which are now
nicely encapsulated in refdbd. Instead you should use the Perl client
library, if possible (can PHP do this?), or call the command-line
clients from your PHP code via system(). The Emacs front-end does the
latter btw and works quite well.

regards,
Markus

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