db4 support

[RobBroekhuis]

I'm trying to read out a file that's Berkeley DB version 4, and figured I'd try to use PHP, since the documentation says it can handle that. In different areas of the documentation, it says that support for this feature was added in PHP 4.3 or PHP 5.0. Since I'm not set up with the ability to compile c programs, I downloaded the Windows executables for PHP 5.0, enabled the dba functionality in php.ini, tried to open my database file with
dba_open("traffic.db","r","db4&quot - but get an error that that version is not available. Sure enough, in the dba handlers area of phpinfo(), it only goes to db3. I've seen references to using --with-db4 as a compilation option - but I have to work with executables. Is there a workaround?

Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

You might try looking for a pre-compiled DB4 library for Win32 and use it as a PHP extension.

I don't know how much success you'll have, though. Berkely DB is common in the *nix world, but not so common in the Win32 world.

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[RobBroekhuis]

Yeah, I was afraid of that. Thanks for your response.


Rob