About importing data, command line and cron jobs

[Dieter S. <dsi...@sq...>]

First of all, SQL-Ledger can be driven from the command line, it is not
what appears to be just a web application. You can basically run every
function from posting invoices to searching or importing data from a
command prompt.

i.e to display the search screen from the ct module.

./ct.pl "login=handle&path=bin/mozilla&password=encrypted&action=search&db=customer"

This displays the search screen for customers in html format on screen.
From there on it is up to you what you want to do with the output. You can
pipe it through another application to perhaps convert the output to pdf
or send it to a printer.

Scheduled transactions, say sending out monthly invoices, can be produced
with a cronjob using the same concept.


Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
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