Re: PHP and Fox Pro (ADODB) question

Best is to port the database to mysql then. Regards, John "Er GalvãO Abbott" <erabbott@DONTSPAMterra.com.br> wrote in message news:3b96531a.411150@news.php.net... > 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, > > > > >