php and URLs for database records

[Anonymous]

I want to buy Zoom Pro to search my MySQL database. But, I need a way for Zoom to access it. I read you FAQs on using a php script to do this but am not sure which script is best for Zoom. Any ideas?

Also, I read in your FAQ that I need a URL to each record in my database. How can I do this when the records in the database don't have URLs?

Sorry if these are stupid questions.

[David]

I am not sure which FAQ question you read, but this is the relevant one,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/faq_howto.html#sql

In general, if you have a custom built database, then you need a custom built script in order to access it in a sensible manner and display the data in a way that makes sense.

Once you have a script then the URLs are formed from the URL to the script.

For example, this discussion forum in stored in SQL. One of the scripts that access the SQL database is called viewtopic.php. And the URL is, for example,
http://wrensoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=747
And viewtopic.php was a specially designed script to read this particulator SQL database and display a single forum post (post number 747 in the example above).

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David