Thanks, Gerhard and Steven. Seems like a way to go; I should've thought about cron, yes.

Tomas


Gerhard Killesreiter wrote: 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Tomas J. Fulopp schrieb:
  
Hi,

Can anybody help me please - I've reviewed tonnes of documentation for
days but cannot find the answer.

I'm developing a module that displays a Java applet and at the same time
prepares data for the applet. This data is stored using cache_set().

The applet then requests this data using a separate call... and my
problem is -- in the program that provides this data to the applet, I do
not know how can I connect to the database. I assume I need to include
bootstrap.inc and a couple of other scripts, but all my experiments failed.

Can you please give me some hints as to what is the proper way to to
this, or can you point me to a page or module that has employed this
technique.

I really would not bother you if I could find it myself. I hope somebody
answers.
    

Looking at cron.php should give you an idea.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFG84MFfg6TFvELooQRAlq7AJ96Cy6XXuulSJdrfP7Hm3EdE7ZOSACglFfp
kNnsE7ny2R4J2YqVEk4OsR8=
=Y7Q2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----