[FX.php List] Back on the trail of automating database management

[Steve Winter]

I don't understand what you mean here...??

Cheers
Steve


On 19 Jun 2009, at 14:00, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> But that is just a matter of table design, no?
>
> ggt
>
> 2009/6/19 Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>:
>> User data meaning the content of the fields/records/tables which  
>> the users
>> of the solutions have entered...
>> Steve
>>
>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 10:51, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>
>> User data meaning what?
>>
>> FileMaker user account?
>> or user data in a table in FileMaker?
>>
>> ggt
>>
>> 2009/6/19 Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>:
>>
>> Hi ggt,
>>
>> That's what I do to roll out the solution to a new instance, and  
>> that works
>>
>> really well... the shell script then calls the FMS command line  
>> tool and
>>
>> opens the database as well which allows for an activation process  
>> which can
>>
>> be undertaken by sending a text message, which is great...
>>
>> But how would I do that and maintain user data... each of these  
>> instances
>>
>> begins as a clone (via the above process) of a template database,  
>> but how
>>
>> would I replace that templated database and maintain the user  
>> data...? I
>>
>> guess I could develop a migration script which reads each record,  
>> from each
>>
>> table of the 'old' structured database, and pushes it into the 'new'
>>
>> structured database, but this is a BIG solution, with tens of  
>> thousands of
>>
>> records in several of the tables....??....??? I can see issues with
>>
>> auto-entered serial numbers at the very least with that idea  
>> (though it's
>>
>> currently the best one around so, thanks....)
>>
>> Any other thoughts on this...?? having to manually create the same  
>> table,
>>
>> with the same fields over and over again is doing my head in ;-)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 08:55, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>
>> Do you have php on the FMSA itself?
>>
>> I would write a php script that executes a shell script that
>>
>> duplicates a template file in the server folder.
>>
>> ggt667
>>
>> 2009/6/19 Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've floated versions of this concept up in the past, but I'm back  
>> in need
>>
>> of a way to automate the creation of a new table in 50+ instances  
>> of a
>>
>> database solution which I develop and manage for a client...
>>
>> What I want to be able to do is to create a new table, complete  
>> with field
>>
>> definitions through a script called via FX....
>>
>> This seems like something of a tall order, and to date has proved
>>
>> impossible... I looked at importing a table from a 'master'  
>> database, but FM
>>
>> won't allow the file or the table to be passed as parameters (or  
>> even set in
>>
>> globals) for the script...
>>
>> Recently I was looking at the XML import function and that looks very
>>
>> promising because I can tell the script to look for an XML file on  
>> my server
>>
>> called 'newTable.xml' (for example) and then modify that...  
>> everything along
>>
>> that line works really well except that the table ends up called  
>> 'XML import
>>
>> from http'. NOT very user-friendly...
>>
>> So, does anyone have any clue as to how I set the table name  
>> through and XML
>>
>> import...? or any other ideas on how I can go about making structural
>>
>> changes to databases using scripts...? (the desire to do this grows  
>> the more
>>
>> this solution is implemented, the more features are added, and the  
>> more I
>>
>> work with MySQL where you can define everything about the database  
>> through
>>
>> php ;-)
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Steve Winter
>>
>> steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz
>>
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>>
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>>
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