ID: 2931
Updated by: jimw
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Assigned To:
Comments:
refiling against 4.0.
Previous Comments:
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[1999-12-07 13:07:32] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of the many plugins for Perl's DBI module is the DBD::CSV module. This allows
users to treat a CSV file as if it were a real database. Instead of manually reading
a file line-by-line and parsing it to find the fields I want, I can write code like
this:
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:CSV:f_dir=/foo/bar;"
. "csv_eol=rn;"
. "csv_sep_char=t;");
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * from foo where fn='Dave'");
$sth->execute();
$dbh->do("DELETE from foo where fn='Dave'");
The advantage of this is primarily:
- easier code to write, and
- easy portability to a real database later (almost as simple as changing all
references from DBD:CSV to DBD:MySQL)
I know PHP4 is moving in the direction of a DBI-like solution, and that's great. In
the meantime, would it be possible to add CSV "database" support to PHP?
(csv_connect, csv_query, csv_fetch_array, etc.) to simulate the operations of a
database on a CSV file?
Thanks!
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