Importing Data

Maverick · Apr 22nd, 2009, 7:45 AM

I have just changed servers and I have found your great software. I have got everything running just the way I want. I have downloaded the last database I had into excel about 200 entries is there an easy way to import the data from this into my new form database. I have looked all over the forum but I can't see any answers relating to this. Or is it just a stupid question?

***Ben*** · Apr 22nd, 2009, 11:32 AM

Hey Maverick,

No - not a stupid question at all. I've encountered this scenario myself several times.

I've sketched out an "Import Manager" module that will do exactly this: import data from different formats, but it's still far from being complete. I'm afraid that your best bet would be to export it as a CSV and write a script to convert the rows into SQL queries. A drag? Yup.

It's possible there's some other scripts out there that may do this too.

Sorry I couldn't be more help!

- Ben

Maverick · Apr 23rd, 2009, 3:12 AM

(Apr 22nd, 2009, 11:32 AM)Ben Wrote: Hey Maverick,

No - not a stupid question at all. I've encountered this scenario myself several times.

I've sketched out an "Import Manager" module that will do exactly this: import data from different formats, but it's still far from being complete. I'm afraid that your best bet would be to export it as a CSV and write a script to convert the rows into SQL queries. A drag? Yup.

It's possible there's some other scripts out there that may do this too.

Sorry I couldn't be more help!

- Ben

Thanks for your reply, with no-one bringing up the subject before, I thought it wouldn't be that easy. Please continue with the good work, as I said before, great product!

mpmonty · Jul 26th, 2010, 2:21 PM

Hi Ben any updates on this? I was able to import into my database with phpmyadmin and I can view them in the table there but cannot get them to show up in any views on my formtools?

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