Friday, December 18th, 2009 (updated 2 Jan ’10)

Adam Khan | Brighton, England

http://engaging.net/news/introducing-external-entries

Display any database table in an ExpressionEngine template using External Entries

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s ExpressionEngine becomes more deeply embedded in organizations’ business processes, there’s more of a need to integrate it with other systems. The External Entries plugin makes this easy.

The plugin enables you to update, insert into, select and delete from tables either within your EE database or any other MySQL database on the internet to which you have administrative access. This means your site can easily import and export data to and from EE and among the backends of any number of other MySQL-based systems.

External Entries costs $25 per EE installation and is free to try before you buy. It works in both EE v1.x and v2.x.

And if you don’t need all the plugin’s power, its four functions are available individually as Update Entries ($15), Insert Entries ($15), Select Entries ($10) and Delete Entries ($5).

External Entries v1 license owners: As a thank-you for being early adopters, you can upgrade to v2 for $10, a saving of $5 over the regular $25 price. Otherwise, if you don’t need the update and insert functionality, please download the Select Entries plugin and begin using that instead, as that plugin has replaced External Entries v1. See the Select Entries docs for the slight syntax changes.