bluegrassjeff — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:33:28 +0000

See if Filemaker will export the data into csv format. From there, you can import the file directly into mysql. Here's a link with some info:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqlimport.html

webbeffects — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:31:04 +0000

thanks Jeeves. I do have all three and I have a phpbb chat board installed on the site that uses those tools. I have done some modification of the board and via phpmyadmin for the board but I am not experienced enough to create something. Do you know of any docs you could point me to for the first push? Thus far I have been lucky enough to find things online for use on different sites but I am afraid with this my luck is run out.

JeevesBond — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:20:50 +0000

Hmmm, can't say I've ever used filemaker. The standard for this sort of thing is MySQL.

There's a raft of tools you can use with MySQL, but often the easiest way to get one is use a host that supports it. Typically you'll find a host will provide PHP, MySQL and will give you a tool called phpMyAdmin (written in PHP) to administrate your database.

Ensure your host has all these things (there aren't many that don't), avoid Microsoft (you might want to setup test servers at home and MySQL/PHP is open source) and you'll be fine!