At least, I'm thinking it'll be done in php as php is how the data is processed for the web anyhow, but I'm definitely open to alternatives as I just need an easy solution as I'm at a complete loss as to how to fix this problem.
I could be on the complete wrong track and should be looking at SQL or something, but this is why I come to the big brains of our forum.
Here's my problem. I have a number of databases. One main one that comes from a distributor but is sorely lacking in a lot of the information that I need to present. I can get this information from the manufacturers in their own .csv files, but I need to combine the information so I can upload the single .csv as a feed into a website. There are literally THOUSANDS of products, so doing this by hand is entirely out of the question.
My thought processes on this is to write a PHP script that can parse both databases looking at a common string and then basically write the combined information into a single database.
Product numbers from one source to the other are similar, and I can do a bulk replace on either one of them to make them the same, which would give me my common string.
The problem I run into is my unfamiliarity with PHP. This is the first time I've ever had to code anything requiring it. So, PHP/Database experts, is my thought process sound or should I be investigating a different method to accomplish this? If it is a sound idea, where do I begin?
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BTW, I've already tried the the command prompt method to combine csv files: (ie, having them in the same directory and doing copy *.csv file.csv) but that merely tacks that databases together creating a new database with duplicate entries with some of the info in one and the rest in another.
