[Phpug] PHP usefulness was Re: [ILUG] extra - PotD Wed, 25th June?

[Ken Guest]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Ken Guest wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Ken Guest wrote:
> > >
> > > > being serious for a moment, php is very good 'glue' language that can
> > > > interact with ldap, snmp, lotus notes (yes, I cringed too), java, sap
> and
> > > > can 'speak with' many types of databases such as oracle, postgresql
> etc
> > > > etc.
> > >
> > > I don't suppose foxpro is in that list, is it?
> >
> > It depends [and I only know this from running  a few searches in google]
> -
> > what are you trying to do?
>
> Sorry, I should probably have done that myself :-)
>
> I have a windows desktop application built on a foxpro database which is a
> bit of a pain.  We can build and run custom foxpro queries on it, but it
> occurs to me that if PHP could query it (ideally from linux) that could be
> very handy.
>
> > I hope you don't mind my cross posting to the IPUG list but you might get
> a
> > better answer there considering not all IPUG members are in the Irish
> Linux
> > User Group.
>
> I don't mind in the least.  Thanks.
>

It seems the dbase functions in php [ http://ie2.php.net/dbase ], which are
available through the
dbase extension, are what you are looking for.

I've not used the dbase extension myself and can't say whether they will
work with the database files on a windows share/samba but it's certainly the
initial approach that I would take.

regards

k.