Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
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: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/12/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: PHP General php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 12:27 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP On 10/12/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
Hi all: I'm not versed at all with Linux, and I need some help in configuring PHP to allow me to use the dBase-related functions. From what I read in the help files, it seems that I need to recompile PHP with the --enable-dbase command, but I don't know how to do this. Can someone out there help me out? All help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jon
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I'm not versed at all with Linux, and I need some help in configuring PHP to allow me to use the dBase-related functions. From what I read in the help files, it seems that I need to recompile PHP with the --enable-dbase command, but I don't know how to do this. Can someone out there help me out? All help will be greatly appreciated! what linux distribution are you using? -nathan
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
Hi Nathan: I have no idea. Where would I look to find this out? Will phpinfo() give me this? And, if so, where would I find it? Jon - Original Message - From: Nathan Nobbe To: Jon Westcot Cc: PHP General Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I'm not versed at all with Linux, and I need some help in configuring PHP to allow me to use the dBase-related functions. From what I read in the help files, it seems that I need to recompile PHP with the --enable-dbase command, but I don't know how to do this. Can someone out there help me out? All help will be greatly appreciated! what linux distribution are you using? -nathan
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nathan: I have no idea. Where would I look to find this out? Will phpinfo() give me this? And, if so, where would I find it? you might try uname -a from the command line; but theres no guarantee it will show the distribution. it will show the kernel, and sometime kernels are named after the distro since they are often modified by the distribution. -nathan
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
Hi again, Nathan: I'm not certain how to get to a command line. The server is a shared server provided by GoDaddy, if that's any help. They told me that I needed to change something in the .htaccess file, but that didn't sound right at all. Thanks again for your help. Jon - Original Message - From: Nathan Nobbe To: Jon Westcot Cc: PHP General Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nathan: I have no idea. Where would I look to find this out? Will phpinfo() give me this? And, if so, where would I find it? you might try uname -a from the command line; but theres no guarantee it will show the distribution. it will show the kernel, and sometime kernels are named after the distro since they are often modified by the distribution. -nathan
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Nathan: I'm not certain how to get to a command line. The server is a shared server provided by GoDaddy, if that's any help. They told me that I needed to change something in the .htaccess file, but that didn't sound right at all. they may be right. did they give you some sort of documentation you could point us to? also, to determine if you have command line access, look around and see if they provide ssh access to the machine. if so i can tell you how to ssh in, even if you have windows or mac. that will give you a command line prompt on the remote machine. -nathan
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
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? Jon - Original Message - From: Nathan Nobbe To: Jon Westcot Cc: PHP General Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Nathan: I'm not certain how to get to a command line. The server is a shared server provided by GoDaddy, if that's any help. They told me that I needed to change something in the .htaccess file, but that didn't sound right at all. they may be right. did they give you some sort of documentation you could point us to? also, to determine if you have command line access, look around and see if they provide ssh access to the machine. if so i can tell you how to ssh in, even if you have windows or mac. that will give you a command line prompt on the remote machine. -nathan
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [PHP] Need help adding dBase support to PHP
On 10/11/07, Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 oh, i just spent and extra second and discovered: (from documentation :) This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini. if dbase does not appear to be installed on the system when you look at phpifno output i would draft an email to them expressing that it doesnt appear to be compiled in and ask them if they can add it. -nathan
