[REBOL] Re: REBOL and MySql
From: mike:yaunish:home at: 4-Dec-2000 20:04
At 10:35 PM 04/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
Here is a copy of a message form a while ago that may help.
From: Jamey Cribbs <[cribbsj--oakwood--org]>
To: [list--rebol--com]
Subject: [REBOL] A word to all novice port programmers
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:41:48 -0400
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This message goes out to all you who, like me, are novices when it comes to
using ports to communicate between your Rebol script and other programs.
I am in the process of learning Rebol. I have been writing some small
applications that use text files to store any data needed.
Because Core does not allow you to run system commands and because I do not
yet
have much experience using ports to communicate, I thought that I would
have to
wait until I purchased Command or someone wrote a script that connected
Core to
MySQL (or the like) via ports.
Then I found MDBMS (www.hinttech.com). This is a very small, simple DBMS
written by a guy named Marty Bochane. Basically, you start it up on a Linux
box, then you can communicate to it interactively using telnet.
But, wait, it gets better. MDBMS has a little utility called FOP (Fast
Opendatabase Protocol). FOP allows you to open a port (default 2224) to your
MDBMS database and interact with it via simple ASCII strings terminated by
newlines.
Using FOP, I was able to very easily open up a port while in Rebol, send sql
queries to my MDBMS database, and receive the result set. It was so cool!
Here I was, a guy who knows VERY little about port programming, basically
building a client/server app in less than 30 minutes.
I know that this will be very mundane, basic stuff to the people on this list
that have a lot of port programming experience. But, if you are a novice like
me, this might be a way to get your feet wet in this subject. I know I am
already learning a lot.
I guess this is also a testament to Rebol's incredible knack for making things
easy to do. The ability you have to easily open, read from, and write to ports
is incredible!
Anyway, just thought I would pass this info along.
--
Jamey Cribbs
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Malcolm Campbell <[ticksoft--freesiteuk--co--uk]>
>To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
>Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:15 PM
>Subject: [REBOL] Re: REBOL and MySql
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > >Anyone have any success interfacing with REBOL to MySql?
> >
> > I don't think you can connect directly to MySQL with
> > REBOL, I think you have to use ODBC. Which is the why
> > I am currently learning PHP to rewrite my site.
>
>what about socket communication, possible?
>
>-pekr-
>
> > > > All the best,
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