Quickbooks to MySQL for a PHP/MySQL based site

is this possible, or does my client need to enter information in the DB
manually (which I will end up doing for them)

any ideas or links would be great,

thanks in advance!

behindspace wrote:
>
> is this possible,

Yes. You need to export QuickBooks data into an IIF file
(this is QuickBooks' standard export-import format; essentially,
this is flat text with some twists, such as multiple lines
per transaction). Then you can twist the IIS around to
transform it into something importable into MySQL.

Last time I dealt with IIS was a couple of years ago, so I
don't remember all the details, but I do remember that somewhere
between QuickBooks help files and QuickBooks Web site I found
a pretty intelligible description of the IIF format...

Cheers,
NC

I wouldn't be using IIS, I have a Linux server running Fedora Core 2, so
I'll be using Apache and MySQL on it's native platform. I can't deal with
IIS, it's to insecure, and prefer not to use M$FT at all (except for
gaming)

behindspace wrote:
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NC> Last time I dealt with IIS was a couple of years ago, so I
NC> don't remember all the details, but I do remember that somewhere
NC> between QuickBooks help files and QuickBooks Web site I found
NC> a pretty intelligible description of the IIF format...
>
> I wouldn't be using IIS,

My apologies. The quote above should read: "Last time I dealt
with IIF". The choice of HTTP server has no bearing on data
imports. In fact, you can do data imports without any HTTP
server, by using command-line scripting...

Cheers,
NC