[mv] SQL backed site exclusively??

[Pugdog <pugdog@ibm.net>]

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I'm a little dense sometimes -- I guess it comes from my early 
line-oriented initiation into computers and programming.  I really need to 
start at the beginning, and MV is so complex it seems to always want to 
start you off in the middle.  I feel I'm missing something very, very basic.

I'm no stranger to beta software, and wanted to use MV4 beta to get at the 
new features.  I had to finally give up with beta2 release because there 
are some config problems I just can't get past...   The "simple" catalog 
wouldn't work at all -- undefined arrays and  such.   The basic catalog 
would work, but the user/sessions stuff wouldn't, so until more people 
start using it, I guess it's on hold for me.

I dropped back to MV 3.14-5, and still need to use SQL to hold the 
databases and data.  Most of my data is already in SQL format.

I'm really, really confused on what MiniVend is doing with the databases.

If the data is in the SQL database, does MiniVend use ASCII tables at all?

How would I define this in a config file?

Is there a list somewhere of the bare minimum SQL tables and fields that 
MiniVend requires?  And a matching catalog config?  The demo config files 
seem to have a lot of extra items in there to handle different cases.  I'm 
finding it really confusing trying to figure out what is needed to run it 
as a MySQL backed shop.

I would really like to do everything in MySQL/SQL and not have to 
use  ASCII uploads at all -- this is even for importing data into the 
databases. I'd rather do it directly in an SQL query than with ASCII uploads.

Thanks for any insights,

Robert S. Pataki, MD
President, PUGDOG Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.postcards.com

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