| topic started 2/14/2001; 5:02:29 PM last post 2/14/2001; 5:21:49 PM |
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2/14/2001; 5:21:49 PM (reads: 1107, responses: 0) |
| This is in the works. Actually WeBWorK in theory (this really hasn't been tested) can also use an older version of Berkeley DB. Hopefully very soon it will work with the current (better) version of Berkeley DB. To implement this type of flat database, all that is needed is to write (and test) a very small "tie" file (look at gdbm_tie.pl which is what we really use or db_tie.pl). Which DB a course uses is selected in the webworkCourse.ph file. Everyone at this point should stick with the well tested gdbm_tie.pl. We want to reorganize how webwork uses databases so as to take better take advantage of relational DB's such as mysql. This will require some more work. Basically one will have a DBglue file (such as DBglue7) for flat databases (gdbm, BerkeleyDB) and another for relational databases (mysql, etc, etc.) and one will probably also have to (or want to) change the way some of this data is called in the main program. Hopefully these changes will be in the next major release of WeBWorK in August. |