Single File Database

[muska]

Hi there,

My friend told me that there is a database format that I can use in PHP that uses only one file to store its data. Does anyone know about this? If there is more than one, which is most efficient and easiest to use?

[Sxooter]

Yes, that would be berkely style DBM databases. If you're running on Linux (and who isn't? 🙂 Then you can use the --with-gdbm switch to support this.

Basically this gives you the ability to put your data into very fast, very simple hash style lookup tables.