Hi, Vladimir Bashkirtsev <vladi...@bashkirtsev.com> writes:
> Hello, > > I was testing latest development version with MySQL backend and in > general I was satisfied with the results. Great piece of software! > > Now here the scenario I want to happen: I have PHP scripts which deal > with GnuCash data in MySQL DB. It is not a problem to read and show > account records from MySQL. But PHP scripts should be able to post > invoices back to GnuCash DB. This side of business is working well too > but if I have GnuCash open and connected to the same MySQL DB no > update in GnuCash happens. I've being looking for something what may > get GnuCash to re-read records but I cannot find anything like > it. Does MySQL backend has something like this? Perhaps having "last > modified" in DB record would be good and GnuCash should check it > periodically. Or the best way is to not to cache anything in memory > and use MySQL for each single operation. Or I just dreaming? :) > > Generally it comes to concurrent use of the same DB by two separate > GnuCash processes and how they get in sync. Without syncing use of DB > does not gain much in relation to XML file. This would be "multi-user support" which is not supported at this time. As Phil says, it's also not on the current path so unless some developer comes in and offers to implement multi-user I don't see this happening any time soon. > Regards, > Vladimir > > PS: I have read warnings about modification of the data by something > but GnuCash. Still it appears to be the best way to resolve my > problem. -derek > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
