On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Chris wrote:
> Hi, > > I am a newbie in freepascal but I have used turbo pascal and Delphi > extensively for the last 7 years or so; I want to write an application for > my linux box to do some crude form of replication of mysql databases. I am > just trying to figure out how to use the mysql50 unit, but cannot find heads > or tails of how to do it; it seems all version have different connecting > methods etc etc etc > > Does anyone have a simple (very simple) and basic way of connecting to a > mysql database, reading a record and writing a record into a table? That's > all I need to get started; or if there is some documentation somewhere on > how to use the unit id be grateful. The easiest is to use the TMySQLConnection class and TSQLQuery. It takes care of most of the details, and uses standard mechanisms to read/write data. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
