HI, Sort of yes. It is actually transmitted as SOAP but I'm using a PHP PEAR package called Services_Ebay which manages the SOAP/XML interface and presents the data to me in UTF-8 text. Thanks Alan -----Original Message----- From: Bastien Koert [mailto:bastien_k@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 04 July 2005 23:39 To: lord_alan@xxxxxxxxxxx; php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Copying large volumes of data to a DB How is the data coming down? Text? Bastien >From: Alan Lord <lord_alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Copying large volumes of data to a DB >Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:45:04 +0100 > >Hi All, > >I'm starting to build an app to manage my eBay sales. Now one of the >things I need to do is to write the Category information into a local DB. > >Once the initial download is done I'm O.K. about updating the content >but my questions relates more to this: > >What is the best way to manage the Mbytes of data which will be coming >down a relatively slow line (DSL) and then writing it into my DB. > >Should I have some sort of buffer where I read n bytes or records and >then write those to the DB and repeat until the process is finished, >or, do I wait until the lot has downloaded then write it to my DB in one big gulp? > >I've done plenty or read/writinig to/from DBs but it has always single >records in the past and I'm just wondering about the "best" way to >handle this? > >Thanks in advance > >Alan > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: >http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
