Re: PHP and Fox Pro (ADODB) question

Is it possible to do it on Linux servers? On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:39:09 +0800, jlim@natsoft.com.my (John Lim) wrote: >Hello, > >You need to configure an ODBC DSN that accesses the foxpro database. Assume >the DSN is called foxy. > >Then download from http://php.weblogs.com/adodb the library. > >Sample code: > include('adodb.inc.php'); include('tohtml.inc.php'); > $conn = &ADONewConnection('vfp'); > $conn->PConnect('foxy'); > $rs = $conn->Execute('select * from table'); > rs2html($rs); /* recordset to html table */ >John Lim >PS: This only works on Windows. > > > >"Er GalvãO Abbott" <erabbott@DONTSPAMterra.com.br> wrote in message >news:3b9512a5.2381817@news.php.net... >> Greetings >> >> I'm a newbie but I've been doing very nice thing with PHP. Now a >> challenge appeared and I'm kinda lost and in need of some help. >> >> I have a project that I have to make search and display routines in a >> Fox Pro database. Everything was wonderful because almost all data >> I've needed was stored in DBF files and PHP Dbase functions were >> handling this very well. >> >> Now I've found that a piece of data that is extremely important to the >> application is in a FPT file. I saw a thread here that recommends the >> use of the ADODB library for PHP that can be found at >> http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB >> >> Well, what I need, hoping that I'm not asking too much is if there is >> anyone hre that can give me a practical example - maybe a code snip - >> on how to achieve this. >> >> Any help will be gratefully appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, > >