php-perl databases

[Anon]

Hi, I have created several perl databases and now want to read them using php. Does anyone know if this is possible?

the perl code used to create the database looks like this:
dbmopen(%AllInv, "database", 0600);

I tried opeing it with this php code:
$dbh = dbmopen("database.db","r");

but I get this error:
Warning: dbmopen_gdbm(database.db): 7 [Bad magic number], 0 [Undefined error: 0]

any ideas?

[Anon]

i am not a perl expert, but say u are using berkeley db or ndbm or anything like that AND would like to use php to read-update those databases, THEN configuration of PHP with those databases is required.

eg
./configure --with-dbm OR ./configure --with-ndbm

check out the options at http://www.php.net/manual/ref.dba.php

cheers,
nilesh.