RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? I was sent with the property information and I didn't see any column names in the info. It might be a problem, unless there is a possibility to set the ODBC connection not to use the first row, I don't know. But since you get

Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all. I assume some of you work on Real Estate sites where you have to deal with a direct feed of data from MLS's. The direct feed for one of my Real Estate sites currently in development will be in the form of an FTP site, from which I can download a zip file with all files, including a tab

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry Guido
, 2008 10:27 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? Hi, all. I assume some of you work on Real Estate sites where you have to deal with a direct feed of data from MLS's. The direct feed for one of my Real Estate sites currently in development

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Jerry Guido
. -Original Message- From: Jerry Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? I did this a number of years ago. The MLS listing were in a 20-50(?) meg XML file. I was using CF 5

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
-Original Message- From: Jerry Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? I did this a number of years ago. The MLS listing were in a 20-50(?) meg XML file. I

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
That's great to hear... I'll have to check on that feature in MySQL. Thanks! Rick -Original Message- From: Jerry Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB

Re: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Claude Schneegans
I will then import the tab delimited info and property filenames into an MySQL database, and place the property photos into the appropriate local server directory. Are you under Windows? The easiest (although not trivial) way to do it is to define an ODBC DSN using the Microsoft Text Driver

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the info, Adrian. Especially on the use of CFLOOP! Rick -Original Message- From: Adrian Moreno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? Regarding

Re: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Adrian Moreno
Regarding CF taking forever to read/parse large files: CF used to load the entire file into memory when trying to read it. It was still doing this as of CF 6 7, but since it was then easier to directly invoke Java, large files could be better handled using java.io.FileReader.

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Dave Long
to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? Regarding CF taking forever to read/parse large files: CF used to load the entire file into memory when trying to read it. It was still doing this as of CF 6 7, but since it was then easier to directly invoke Java, large files could be better handled

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB? I will then import the tab delimited info and property filenames into an MySQL database, and place the property photos into the appropriate local server directory. Are you under Windows? The easiest (although not trivial) way to do

Re: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Claude Schneegans
Interesting approach. Is there someplace I can read up on this approach? Dunno, I managed to set it horsing around with the ODBC manager in Windows. See Administrative tools -- ODBC manager. You must have a special directory dedicated to your .csv files, then you set your txt csv ODBC driver

RE: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
production tables. From there I should be good to go. Thoughts on that process outline? Rick -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed

Re: Tags useful to accomplish automating MLS direct feed into MySQL DB?

2008-01-17 Thread Claude Schneegans
I was sent with the property information and I didn't see any column names in the info. It might be a problem, unless there is a possibility to set the ODBC connection not to use the first row, I don't know. But since you get the file by FTP, you can still append it to a one line file