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hi there,
I am a developper using python and a python base cms (zope/plone).
what I would like do do is handling some of the data in cimicrm's databse from this environment.

now my questions:
what documentations should I use. Is there an dbapi documentation?

one of the main tasks would be to entry new contacts and handle their relationships and group/tag assignments
looking at how civicrm fills the tablesI, I have the impression this should not be hard.
now I wonder whether it is necessary to handle any log data?
would anything break, if no log is maintained at all?

one of the a contacts fields I do not know how to set is the hash.
how is its value calculated ?

thanks for your time
robert

I think plone integration would be great, since something like civicrm is lacking in this environment.
however, plone is *not* php based but is written in python.
therefore what we need is a sql api.
so for instance: what happens when I call  addIndividualContact() in the database ?

where is that call described ?
do I have to reverse engineer the php code (which I would resent) ?

robert

oh sorry, I did not want to sound negative.
it is just that finding my way trough php code is not easy for me(I wanted to learn it for years but failed to have a reason ..)

robert