DBM Databases

soulreaver

Help,

When reading a dbm database everything is fine until the entry gets to ten charachters and then it starts offsetting itself, adding numbers where there were none before. I've looked through this archive but can't find an answer. Anyone help?

Cheers

Anon

Are you on MS Windows? I get the same problem on Windows, but works fine on Unix.

soulreaver

Yes I am currently using W2000 but want to put the script I've developed onto my live WinNT server. I really hope its not a windows prob or I'm going to have to start from scratch. Ever connected to MS Access?

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Hi Neil,

Ever connected to MS Access?

Yes, frequently. I am an author of a class library that mimics Microsoft's ADO that is available at http://php.weblogs.com/adodb

There are many examples of connecting to MS-Access with ODBC included.

soulreaver

Thanks a lot. I will give this a go and see if I can get my prog to work that way. Again thanks.

soulreaver

Hi John,

Thanx again for the link. I do have a query though that I can't seem to find an answer too.

What does -> mean? I've only started learning PHP two weeks ago so you'll have to forgive this probably stupid question. Without understanding what your sample script is doing I can't work out what I'm doing wrong to get it to work properly. It is definately connecting as if I change the sample line of
while (!$recordSet->EOF) to
while (!$recordSet 1= "") I send the machine into a mad loop ! but it does print out info from the access db I'm connecting to. I'm sure I can work out what I'm doing wrong but I just don't understand that little bit, and doing searches on the FAQ's just throws up search errors.

Cheers for any help

Neil

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You can group a set of variables and functions together in PHP as an object.

object->variable = 'abc';

means for this object, set the variable to 'abc'; Vars like this are often called properties.

object->Run();

means for this object, run the function Run(). Functions like this are often called methods.

Read the php.net/manual for more details.

Regards, John

soulreaver

John,

Again thanks. I promise I won't bother you again (well until tomorrow at least!) Thanks a lot

Neil