On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:45:30PM +0000, David Baird wrote: > On 11/5/05, Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Having worked backwards to the beerdb example, I'm now trying to get > > it to work with my real database which is using Oracle. This is not > > working and it seems to be a problem that the C:D:Oracle module > > doesn't do enough to keep formbuilder happy. Anyone else running > > formbuilder with Oracle? Or even just standard Maypole with Oracle > > (which does work, but took a bit of hacking) I will spend some time > > digging in the C::D::Formbuilder stuff to see if I can make it work > > with Oracle (or convince management to use MySQL for this DB :) ) > > Great! The code you need to look at is probably in > CDBI::FormBuilder::Meta::Table and CDBI::FormBuilder::Meta::Column. > These are standalone, so you can try setting up a simple test script > that uses these modules to try and read metadata from your database. > I'm keen to release these as an independent package, but I've only run > them against MySQL and SQLite, so I want to know if they work against > other beasts before going ahead.
Funny, I should have checked my email a bit earlier. I just spent the last while playing in the perl debugger to understand how the CDBI::FormBuilder stuff works. I'm just at the point of understanding the details of C:D:F:Table & Column :) It is definitely not getting information about the oracle database, hopefully I'll be able to track down why shortly. Jim -- Jim Mintha Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Work: +31 20 525-4919 Informatiseringscentrum Home: +31 20 662-3892 University of Amsterdam Debian GNU/Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _There are always Possibilities_ http://www.mintha.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Maypole-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maypole-users
