Extension talk:RPED

This extension is almost ready for alpha. The last step before I deploy it will be to tighten up the security; my focus thus far has been getting it to simply work, under the assumption that there's plenty of time to make it work securely later.

The problem at this point is how to get the very large (7 million+ row) SQL table from the server to the client. It could simply be downloaded, but I'm not sure how to set up that interface. In any case, PHP times out after about 60 seconds, so whatever we do has to be done quickly or else in relatively small, manageable chunks. Hence the solution I have come up with of using the "API," or perhaps I should say the PHP file that converts incoming piped parameters to SQL rows. But perhaps there is another solution. I could have a Perl script on the server generate another script for the client to run, that will populate the database. More thoughts later. Tisane 20:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)