PicoCMS plugin : MySQLList

Fetch data from mysqlDB. Put fields values into markdown.

Motivations

Adding database connection for the great flat file CMS Pico sound weird! Yes it is. The goal is to use pico as a base to monitor a MySQL database and show some key values. It will be completed with a MySQLGraph plugin and a GETFromAPI plugin.

Install

Copy the MySQLListPlugin.php and the MySQLConfig.php files into the plugins folder.

Config

First, config your database access in the MySQLConfig.php :

return array(
    'db1'=>array ( // database settings name for the plugin 
        'host' => 'localhost', //database host
        'username' => 'admin', //database username
        'password' => 'passwd1', //database password
        'db_name' => 'db1_name') //database name
);

You can add several database in this file. If you also use the MySQLGraph plugin, you can share the conf file : put MySQLListPlugin.php, MySQLGraphPlugin.php and a MySQLConfig.php files in the root plugin folder.

Then, you should write queries, and give them names in the Pico's config :

mysql_source:
 db1:                             # First database config name
  #query_name: "SQL Query, SELECT only"
  select_users: "select * from user limit 2"
  select_android_user: "select * from user  where is_android = false limit 3"

For queries delimitation, only use ", not `, since it can be use in the SQL query.

Finally, use those queries in your markdown file :

• query : the name of the query used as it is in the Pico's conf file.
• row : the markdown you want to insert in your file for each row of the query result. Use { and } to put your query column name.

For a list:

[db_source query="select_users" row=" + {id} *email* : {email}" ]

Or a table:

| id | email |
|----|:------|
[db_source query="select_users" row=" | {id} | {email} |" ]