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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Database drive script Post 302119491 by LiquidChild on Wednesday 30th of May 2007 06:53:04 AM

05-30-2007

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Database drive script

I have decided to use a database table to allow the user to configure how my script should function, i.e. what menu options to display etc, and hold variable values in the table instead of a script. This means moving into different environments they should just be able to copy the script and then alter the database table without having to worry about changing code etc.

My question really is, is this possible?

I would like to read all the values in the table and put them in a variable with the same name, so that should i wish to just use a new variable all that needs to be done is to add it to the table and then it can be referenced in my scripts as a variable, since the code for reading the table would populate all the variables and give them the same name.

So for example my table is a name/value pair table and has:

SHOW_SQL_MENU Y
SHOW_LOG_MENU Y

Then in my scripit I can have something like

if [ "$show_log_menu" == "Y" ]
then
;
else
;
fi

Can anyone let me know if this is going to be a major thing to do, also any suggestions on how to do it?

Thanks

LiquidChild

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NAME

       ipescript - Run an Ipe script (written in Lua)

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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