Mailing List Archive: 49091 messages
  • Home
  • Script library
  • AltME Archive
  • Mailing list
  • Articles Index
  • Site search
 

[REBOL] REBOL and database stuff

From: mat:plothatching at: 30-Mar-2003 15:52

Howdy, I suppose this is a bit of a longshot given how quiet things are these days on the REBOL front... Anyhow - I've been tasked with setting up a bulk mail system for an advertising client. I didn't really like much of the (copious) commercial software to do this so I've decided to do it myself in REBOL. The major bit of this is database handling. For something similar in the past I used db.r from "Jamey Cribbs" and enjoyed the elegance of that system. However I seem to have a couple of odd things happening with that and the latest REBOL version and I doubt flat-file databases would be good with 5,000 fields. So I've dusted off REBOL/Command and had a quick toy with talking to a proper MySQL database. Despite knowing virtually nothing about MySQL (or indeed databases in general), I seem to have it up and running even with the basic documentation concerning REBOL/Command's database features (on rebol.com). It struck me though, had someone used this seriously they may have written some easier more REBOLesque handling functions as an interface between REBOL and SQL queries. After all that's what I'll end up doing if this proves to be a negative. Has anyone done anything like that? Or perhaps you've just done a fair bit of database manipulation with REBOL/Command and MySQL and you wouldn't mind tossing me the script to take a 'butchers' at as we say in my parts. Thanks folks. Regards, Mat Bettinson - +44-(0)20-83401514.