Quoting Jeremy Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a library and/or API making it possible for external programs > to access GnuCash data? I'd prefer accessing through an API, rather > than parsing the XML data files directly, or even directly accessing the > new SQL back-end.
Yes, absolutely. There is an API which consists of everything in the src/engine sub-directory including its dependencies (lib/libqof/qof and some more). The code in those directories is built into shared libraries which intentionally require only the (non-GUI) libglib but no libgtk. It's documented by the doxygen source code comments, see http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/ > Specifically, my goal is to work on a PHP extension. The first function > I would be interested in would be to retrieve the accounts tree. There has been some work on *python* wrappers to the gnucash API, see src/optional/python-bindings and the discussion in this thread http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.devel/23800 I don't know how easy it is to access python from PHP, but if it isn't too bad, this might be the easiest way for you to start. Of course the "best" solution were if you would add PHP wrappers to the SWIG definition files, just as they already both Scheme and Python wrappers, but I don't know how hard that would be. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
