Posted by Simeron on May 7, 2010 at 9:41pm
Okay, I have someone that wants me to build a fairly simple site for them. The only issue is we have gone from a simple "email" of information to actually having to input into an insurance database.
The site will be for an insurance agent and the main company doesn't want client data outside their control.
What the customer wants is a way for their customers to input data onto the site and have this information generate an email to them.
But what they have described to me is that this inputting of information needs to interface with a database outside the hosting service.
My question is this...what is the smoothest and easiest way to do this?
Ben
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External database interface
What are the options for adding information to the external database? Is it a MySQL database that you can write to directly? Is there a published API that you can access? Can you send an XML/CSV/text file to be read by the external application? Is there a web interface that can be used?
Smoothest and easiest will be constrained by the available options of the external host.
Not sure yet. I was supposed
Not sure yet. I was supposed to have been given all this information by 5pm Friday...its 1030 Saturday night and still nothing.
meph.
My understanding at this time its its a SQL database that will be hosted offsite by the parent insurance company.