[TYPO3] cannot find 'adodb' in TER

[Ries van Twisk]

Bing Du wrote:

>Ries van Twisk wrote:
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>>Peter Russ wrote:
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>>>Bing Du schrieb:
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>>>>Hello,
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>>>>I'm not able to install ADOdb Interface (rvt_adodb) because it 
>>>>depends on 'adodb'.
>>>>When I connect to online repository, I can see several extensions 
>>>>depend on 'adodb'.  But I'm not able to find any extension that has 
>>>>'adodb' as Extension key.  We use Typo3 3.8.
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>>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>>Bing
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>>>adodb is shy !
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>>>Regs. Peter.
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>>I also need to check if rvt_adodb is still compatible with any 4.0 
>>version.....
>>Let me know what's happening and if it's working...
>>My first advice is use DBAL UNLESS you REALLY need rvt_adodb AND it's a 
>>private extension!!!
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>>rvt
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>Thanks for the response.  I picked adodb because I saw some user 
>comments say that DBAL was not very mature or something similar in that 
>nature and suggest try adodb.  Right now, I don't need to change the 
>core database to something other than MySQL.  I just want to test if 
>it's possible to pull data from different databases within typo3 without 
>installing any additional software (e.g. ODBTP, freeTDS, etc.) on the 
>operating system.
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You can do that with default DBAL actually... you don't need rvt)adodb
for that.
DBAL is more mature nowdays... just experiment and see what happens.
rvt_adodb uses DBAL configuration files so it's fairly easy to switch...

Ries

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