I turned this into a script in web2py/scripts in trunk. What is the
license? I assume it is GPL or BSD but it should be stated.
Massimo

On Aug 26, 5:36 pm, selecta <gr...@delarue-berlin.de> wrote:
> Create the web2py code needed to access yourmysqllegacydb.
>
> To make this work all thelegacytables you want to access need to
> have an "id" field.
>
> Thispluginneeds:mysql
> mysqldump
> installed and globally available.
>
> Under Windows you will probably need to add themysqlexecutable
> directory to the PATH variable,
> you will also need to modifymysqltomysql.exe and mysqldump to
> mysqldump.exe.
> Just guessing here :)
>
> Access your tables with:
> legacy_db(legacy_db.mytable.id>0).select()
>
> If the script crashes this is might be due to that fact that the
> data_type_map dictionary is incomplete.
> Please complete it, improve it and continue.
>
> downloadhttp://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~fkrause/web2py.plugin.legacymysq...
> screenshothttp://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~fkrause/screenshot_legacymysql.png

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