Possible to install WebsiteBaker with text database instead of mysql?

[electric]

Hello,

I would like to use WebsiteBaker on a few hosting accounts that do not have MySql.  Is it possible to use a flat-file database instead?

ie: SQLite

I have not looked into the code, but I don't know if perhaps the database functions are abstracted so that we can use any other database?

If not, would it be very difficult to do this?

Thanks!

[vyni]

Hi electric,

I don´t know for sure, but I´m afraid it´s impossible to use WB without MySql. But if You plan to run it on a few accounts without MySql - what about Sql-Server sharing? -  You propably have somewhere a "full-account" otherwise You wouldn´t use it at all. You could share the SQL-server from this account ?

Or look out for a free-hoster, feed a "dummy-page" and use this SQL-Server.

regards from Himberg, nearby Vienna

[electric]

Actually, the reason I am asking is because I'd like to "wrap" my application ( a gallery script) around websitebaker.

Many of my clients do not have a hosting account that includes MySQL, so I need some kind of cms that can use only text files.

PHP 5 has sqlite built-in that can do this, and there are a few "text database" classes for older versions of PHP.

All of them can take standard SQL and use normal text files as the database...  the "trick" is that the script/application must be abstracted from the database calls, so that the alternative "db" can be used.

I hope that makes sense.  Basically, instead of hardcoding mysql PHP functions into websitebaker, what is needed is to use generic "query" and "update" functions, which then call the specific function for whatever database type is being used... whether it's mysql, oracle, mssql, or sqlite or any other SQL standards-compliant architecture.

But I guess this is not possible with websitebaker. 

Thanks!

[albatros]

Is it possible to use a flat-file database instead?

Hi,

this would be a very nice feature!

Maybe this is somthing, you could use instead: http://www.cmsimple.com/.

hth

albatros