Hi Nathan:
The page you referenced in the PHP documentation is exactly what I saw that indicated that the dBase functions needed to be compiled in with the --enable-dbase directive. What I need to know is HOW to do this, even in general terms. GoDaddy is being very little help (no big surprise there). Their last message indicated updating values in the php.ini file would let this work, but, as you pointed out, this isn't an option with the php.ini. I looked in the phpinfo data and couldn't find anything that matched "dbase" anywhere; certainly, no section in the output indicated any dBase settings whatsoever.
I'm fearing that I'm going to have to find some other way to handle the extraction of data from DBF files if I can't get this to work.
Thanks again for your help.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan Nobbe
To: Jon Westcot
Cc: PHP General
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi again:
Thanks for the info. From what I can see, GoDaddy does NOT provide access to ssh. Any other thoughts? Or is there some way to tell me, in general terms, how to configure PHP to allow the dbase functions to be used?
if godaddy is recommending that you place values in a .htaccess file they probly mean you should upload a .htaccess
file via ftp. im assuming thats how the give you access to the system (since there is no ssh access).
im a bit unsure of the .htaccess setting, though i recently posted a small how-to on using .htaccess files to override
settings in php.ini; this is common in shared hosting environments.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_php.ini_overrides_w/_.htaccess
basically, to have dbase support, php must be compiled w/ --enable-dbase, per the documentation.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/rlef.dbase.php
perhaps, it is compiled in and the php.ini settings are preventing you from using the functions (though that sounds hard to believe).
you might try tossing a phpinfo script on the box and looking for dbase in the output; particularly look for --enable-dbase, or --disable-dbase.
you should see a dbase section also, if its compiled in. if it is there we can get a better idea of what sort of values could be placed in the
.htaccess file that would influence the behavior of the dbase component on that system.
-nathan
