re: Third Party CSV

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Hi guys,

Would like to know if this is possible... I am building a car dealership website, the client is currently using a third party application to store all their cars.

They would like for me to use this data, so they would obviously have to export this data and I would need to import this data and integrate into C5.

My question/s is, is it possible or is a plugin available that imports a database automatically over a given time (eg. imports and overrides existing data every 15 mins) and then somehow generate these pages in C5.

I'm not at all an expert in php but we do have a gun php programmer who however has not built with C5 before.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,
Ritchie

 
johndorsay replied on at Permalink Reply
johndorsay
Well, you won't be able to pull this data into a c5 page per say. But the way to maybe handle this is to create a single_page and a controller and pull the correct based on the unique id. I could give you a hand if you need a point in the right direction.
As for the auto update of a db... some one else please?
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
make a job
TheRealSean replied on at Permalink Reply
TheRealSean
Potentially a Cron job to run a custom script that imports the data, then you can set it to run when you like.

Can't be much help past this point I'm afraid, we use them but I don't code them one of our other developers is responsible for that.(we run on a Linux server with Shell access)
roa123 replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks for the replies guys... and thank you for the ideas...