(following paragraph added in update)

I'm being very presumptuous here, in that you didn't mention trying to get your hands on the specs from which the PHP and Perl where written. If you have tried to get them, I apologize.

(end of addition)

Considering that somebody managed to lose an entire database (and its backups?), I guess it would be too much to hope for somebody actually having the documents describing the database tables floating around.

My thinking is that whoever wrote the PHP and Perl code would have needed descriptions of the database in order to do anything. If this documentation is available, even if slightly outdated, it would make your task easier. Even the original specifications from which the Perl and PHP were written would help.

emc

e(π√−1) = −1

In reply to Re: Parse PHP or Perl and Reconstruct MySQL Schema by swampyankee
in thread Parse PHP or Perl and Reconstruct MySQL Schema by Anonymous Monk

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