Author Topic: Automatic import - non human driven (Read 957 times)

Masta · January 09, 2011, 10:47:24 am

Hello,
would it be possibile to have the import procedures to run automatically, with no human needed to launch them, let's say every night?

Cheers

Kurund Jalmi · January 09, 2011, 11:21:13 am

You cannot use current import feature for this. But you can write simple import script which is specific to your CSV file and setup cron to run it every night.

Hth
Kurund

Hershel · January 09, 2011, 12:26:54 pm

You could import a CSV as Kurund said, or you could write a script to import any type of data. The real point to be made here is that you would have to write the script initially do whatever import it will be and then it could run every night by itself.

Masta · January 10, 2011, 01:50:00 am

Thanks everyone!

Any advice on where to put hands? I mean on which tables do I have to work? Could my script simply add records to the civicrm_contact table?

Thanks again

xavier · January 10, 2011, 02:09:03 am

Hi,

Don't touch directly the db, that recipes for problems and future incompatibilities.

Use the api, and I'd suggest starting by reading the relevant chapters in our book:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/DevelopAPI

Good luck

X+

Hershel · January 10, 2011, 02:49:51 am

I would strongly agree with Xavier--don't try to insert data directly into the database. The API is the way to go.

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