[drupal-devel] external database queries?

[Matt Westgate]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 10:19 am, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Op zaterdag 5 maart 2005 16:09, schreef Sheldon Rampton:
> > I'd like to write some code that will let my Drupal installation do
> > some queries of my MediaWiki database, which is a separate MySQL
> > database than my Drupal database. And, I'd like to be able to take
> > advantage of some of the nice tools that Drupal provides for managing
> > query results, such as the pager. Can anyone suggest how I might do
> > this?
>
> Since I am no DB guru no. But I suggest you start with reading about
> modules and such in the Drupal Handbook.
>
> And also, Eventhough this might sound like a development issue, it really
> is a support question. WE have exellent support channels and systems for
> everyone, so please use those, so that others too can benefit from the
> answers you get.


Good point Bèr. I created a page regarding multiple database connections in 
the handbook.

http://drupal.org/node/18429

Matt