Hi Gary

First of all download MyODBC from the MySQL website if not done already.

This will give you a new odbc driver in control panel.

The variables below for ipaddress, dbname, userid and password should all be on PHPMyAdmin which is the way most hosting companies allow you to manage MySQL. You may need to ask for the IP because it isn't always just an IP . On one of my sites it is "cluster.mysqlinstance.domainname.com".

This fox code downloads from one of my databases.

nMySQL1=Sqlstringconnect("Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver}; Server=<ipaddress>; Database=<dbname>; UID=<userid>; PWD=<pass>; Option=3")

If nMySQL1>=0

SQLEXEC(nMySQL1,"select * from tblagents","crs")

Select crs

Endif

SQLDISCONNECT(nMySQL1)

Once you have a handle to the database via Stringconnect you can fire any SQL commands at it.

I sometimes have weird issues where commands do not complete. AsyncMode in the properties usually fixes this.

SQLSETPROP(nMySQL, 'asynchronous', .F.)

UDL files are a good way to get at a connection string. If you haven't used them before right click on your desktop/new/text doc. Rename this to .UDL and run it.

You'll get the standard windows wizard. Fill in the blanks and test connection. Rename back to .txt open it and there's your connstring.

If you can't connect remotely to the MySQL database another way is to FTP the file and run a php webpage both via fox.

Google has lots of resources for parsing a csv in php. This is the page at the top of the list

http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

Cheers

Graham

-----Original Message-----

From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gary Jeurink

Sent: 10 August 2011 04:31

To: GrahamB

Subject: RE: visual foxpro 6 to mysql

I'm not great at PHP but I'm learning. Tables are cTeams, cGames, cTmstats.

The cTmstats gets updated each week along with cGames that have been played.

I don't know how to update the MySQL cTmStats with the foxpro cTmstats.dbf each Tuesday morning. I need to update the MySQL tables at godaddy with my foxpro data and I don't know how. PHP gives me access to MySQL but how do I connect foxpro? ... I tried delimited text but they usually crash at 1/2 to 2/3rds using MyAdmin... whatever its called.

Gary Jeurink

-----Original Message-----

From: Stephen Russell [mailto:srussell705@gmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 6:07 PM

To: ProFox Email List

Subject: Re: visual foxpro 6 to mysql

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Gary Jeurink <g.jeurink@charter.net> wrote:

> I have developed a football statistics database that I update each

> week

for

> the 120 d1a college football teams and the 32 pro teams. Included is

> the schedule so you can pick a game and the various yds and points are

predicted

> for upcoming games. Its fun  and I do well on college pickem and

> pigskin pickem on espn. I update from web pages to excel sheets and

> then merge to

my

> database with a view each week. What is the easiest way  to reload a

> MySQL table on a server [godaddy] from my foxpro data table?

>

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I would do update statements as well as insert statements.

You can crunch many togther via a union and pass a long string as a script

So how do you set up to accomplish this? I would make two passes to identify updates to existing rows and then add in new rows. Create a script per table for both types of statements.

Just a guess but you have a row for each team in a game ? You also put in some rows to support players accomplishments in that game?

Inserts are pretty simple :

INSERT INTO table1 (field1, field2)

VALUES ('foo', 'bar');

UPDATE table1 SET field1 = 'foobar', field2' = 'new value' where ID=???

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