<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dave:<div>Thanks. I'll certainly give it a try.</div><div>Thanks for your contribution.</div><div>Bill<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">William A. Prothero</span></span></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://earthednet.org/">http://earthednet.org/</a></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 31, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Metzler, David wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">It will access any PDO database (mysql included) and also allows native support for Oracle. We use it for reporting against oracle, but also used it to add chat logs to the Openfire chat server: another mysql application. </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I'm working on adding Postgres native support as well in order to take advantage of some of the cool XML specific technologies in postgres. </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">If you have any trouble using it, file issues on the issue queue. </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="210434618-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Dave</font></span></div><br> <div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> support-bounces@drupal.org [<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>prothero<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 31, 2011 10:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [support] Report from an arbitrary database<br></font><br></div> <div></div>Thanks, Dave. This may be useful for another application I'm thinking of, as long as it will access external mySQL databases. <div>Bill<br> <div><br> <div apple-content-edited="true"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto" class="Apple-style-span"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span">William A. Prothero</span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://earthednet.org/">http://earthednet.org/</a></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></div><br> <div> <div>On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Metzler, David wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="186210217-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I'm not sure what you're expecting drupal to do vs. your online application. But if you need to produce a report from an arbitrary database, with the context of a drupal site (as your subject suggests), you might consider giving <a href="http://drupal.org/project/forena">http://drupal.org/project/forena</a> a try. </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="186210217-31012011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><br>Dave</font></span></div><br> <div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"></div></div><br>[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div> -- <br>[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>