Hi Nathan:
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, it's not my call which host to use.
I'm just being asked to help write some code, and I know that there are DBFs
in the process that need to be examined and brought into MySQL on a daily
basis, if not more often.
From what I've been told, the GoDaddy server is a shared server, which I
guess means that we, the underlings using it, can't really get in and make
whatever changes we'd like to make.
I did use the browser search to look for any occurence of "dbase" in the
phpinfo-returned data, but nothing showed up.
I appreciate the help you've given. I'll just have to wait and see if
the person who owns the site is able to get anywhere with the GoDaddy tech
support.
Thanks again,
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Nobbe" <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jon Westcot" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "PHP General" <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: Need help adding dBase support to PHP
> On 10/12/07, Jon Westcot <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> basically you run about 3 commands.
> configure
> make
> make install
> and configure is the command you would pass --enable-dbase to.
> windows systems typically have binary installs available; but i really
have
> never setup php on a windows box.
>
> anyway, the reason i asked about the distribution to begin with is many
> distributions handle php configuration / installation so its quite simple.
> on gentoo you just add or remove a use flag and emerge it again if you
want
> to make a change. on debian there are modules so i believe you can just
> apt-get a new module if it isnt already installed.
> seems nice, but ill tell you, on gentoo you spend time compiling; on
debian
> you spend time saying where is that package i want and how do i trick
> apt-get to install it correctly. but i digress... :)
>
> 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.
>
>
> if you havent done so i would just use the search feature of your browser
> and type in dbase on that page. you should see something in the configure
> directive; either --enable-dbase or --disable-dbase most likely.
>
> 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.
> >
>
> are you really committed to godaddy at this point ?
>
> -nathan
>
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