I have been tossing about the question of how to get items from a DBMan db displayed on the front page of my site for several months now. A friend pointed me towards PHP/FI as a database interface for the Web.

If I purchase DBMan/SQL (which I'm ready to do) can I use PHP/FI and perhaps MySQL (which PHP already supports) to draw data from the DBMan/SQL files?

Are they compatible in any way and has anyone done so?



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Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org
http://www.amiga.org

Hi Wayne,

Yes, it's quite possible. Once the information is in the mysql database, you can use PHP to access the data, DBMan is not involved in any way.

Hope that helps,

Alex

Forgive my confusion here. Are you suggesting;

1) DBMan/SQL isn't necessary at all?

or

2) I could use DBMan/SQL to manage the data and PHP to pull it out and show it in a custom manner?

My original goal is not to destroy the DBMan setup I have now but to use it to manage and display the data on my news page, I just need to be able to display news in several different formats.

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Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org
http://www.amiga.org

More like number 2.

Once the information is in mysql, DBMan SQL can work off of it to add/remove/modify/search on it, but if you also wanted to do something in php on your home page, you could access it as well. The two programs could work off the same data without any headaches.

Hope that helps,

Alex