Re: PHP and Flatfile Database

hi richard, what about dbm (ndbm or gdbm ... are quite the same)? this is a little flatfile like db with a hash-key and the data assigned to this key. you are able to select the data by key what you need is that php was configured '--with-dbm'. hope this helps a little. bye, mac Richard McLean wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to set up a site to use a tab-separated text file to generate > dynamic product pages for an online catalogue. MySQL I can do, but > I haven't found many resources about doing this with a flat file (I can't > use MySQL/PHP on this server.) > > Does know where I can find some info or examples of doing this? > > The examples I've seen so far read the whole file into an array and > go from there. Is this how it has to be done? I'm thinking I should > search the file first, and then only turn the line(s) that match into > an array. Is this possible? I'm a bit lost ...