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[nycphp-talk] OT: Standard Data Import Tool?

Gary Mort garyamort at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 19:49:33 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to write a tool that somehow takes multiple data feeds (some xls
> files, some csv files, etc.), defines each format,
> verifies/validates/sanitizes the data, and imports it into standardized
> MySQL tables.
>

Consider Yahoo pipes.  They already do all this and then will provide you
with an export.  So push everything through the pipes and export it as JSON
and then you don't need to code them all yourself.
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