php X dbf

[Anon]

Can I use php to consult a dbf database ? How can I do this ??

[Anon]

Hello,
use the dbase_... functions of PHP.
Unfortunately you have to compile the functions into the PHP-module with the
--dbase configuration parameter.
Refer the install docs from the source distributions.

If you are not depending on altering the data you can use the tool dbf2mysql to import the DBFs into a MySQL-server.

Regards
Ingo

[smarlowe]

Do you need to keep the dbf database in it's original format, or can you export it to a real dbms like postgres or mysql?

If exporting is an acceptable option, then look here:

http://lyceum.ksu.ru/pub/linux/dbase/