Do you have root access to the internet MySQL server? The easiest way to do this would be to use replication, I think. It doesn't sound too difficult to set up and it would do all of the updating for you. Is that an option? If not, then you can enable binary logging (I think that's what it is) in your local MySQL server and maybe use that log to update the two servers (this is what replication does for you, though). Last option, beside what you're doing, is doing a dump of the data and importing it on the Internet server (or, again if you have access, just copy the mysql/data/database_name folder from one to the other, but you have to shut down MySQL temporarily to do that). ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitry Murashev" <dsmurashev@mail.ru> To: "DB-PHP" <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 4:04 PM Subject: Updating data on remote server Hello everybody! I've got a very intersting task for myself and I hope somebody can help me to solve it. I have a big site in the Internet that stores many information in several tables. The site is PHP and MySQL based. I have a copy of this site on my local server. Any data for the site I add and update on the local server and only then I upload it on my site in the Internet. The task is what is the best way to update my data on remote site? What programms in PHP should I write? Now I'm trying to use two ways (They can seem too boring) 1. I write all MySQL commands that executes on the local server into separate table. These commands are DELETE, UPDATE and ADD. Every record has (in field 'date') a time when it was executed. So from time to time I copy all commands to a text file, then copy file to the remote server and execute them there. 2. Every table has the field 'date'. When any infromation is UPDATEd or ADDed (not DELETEd) the time is writes into necessary row. So the time in field 'date' shows when the information was updated or added. Again from time to time I just copy commands (according to the time I select) to a text file, then copy file to the remote server and execute them there. In this case I don't know how the remote site will know what data was deleted on the local site. The problem is that these two methods are not proffesional written and have many lacks and the text files becomes too big for uploading (0.5 - 1 Mb). Could anybody give me any suggestions or links to related resources please? What methods to update data on the remote server from the local one are? Thanks, Dmitry Murashev -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
