RE: [PHP] Passing data between the web to an Intranet

> Haven't the faintest idea what you mean by "direct from the > web" and "a secure > Intranet mysql db" and "web DB". > Sorry. What I mean is that we have an externally hosted website. Currently all the forms etc update tables in the web hosted mysql DB. I am in the process of building a small CRM system and want the data to drop into our non public domain Intranet server. Is this possible? > > I am thinking down one of three lines. > > 1) I use PHP to send an email with the data in it and update our > > internal DB manually (the worst case) > > Can be done pretty easily. > I know but I don't want to have to manually update data from emails to our Intranet server. > > 2) I use PHP which takes data, sends it as an email, puts it into a > > form which then automatically updates our internal network > > (interesting idea but I have no clue if it can be done ;o) > > Not sure what you mean here. How is it different from the above? > I was thinking that I may be able to *automatically* take the data from emails and put them through a form (hosted internally) which would then update our DB here. I just don't know whether it's possible to do or where to start. > > 3) I use some sort of synchronisation so every time the web DB is > > updated our internal one is also updated (ideal). > > See mysql replication. > > I would welcome any other ideas or solutions. Does mysql have any > > replication or synchronisation functions? I am told Oracle has but > > haven't seen this or heard of this with mysql. > > Did you actually do any research? I'm sure if you google for "mysql > replication" or "mysql synchronisation" you would get > thousands of hits. Yes I did but am not really understanding it which is why I asked here. Sorry if that offends you.