Re: The New Guy

Paul, Just a clarification: I wasn't the original poster. Christopher J. Crane was the original asker of the CSV/flat file database question. I do have a db to use. Cheers, db Paul Burney wrote: > on 1/14/02 2:12 PM, Daniel Barton at dbarton@prbo.org appended the following > bits to my mbox: > > > Well maybe I should just go out and join that perl list. > > I was going to respond to you but I didn't have a good answer. :) > > I don't know of any built in PHP functions that do what you are looking to > do. There are some special fgets-type functions for use with CSV, but > nothing that treats it as SQL. > > You might want to try the PEAR repository to see if they have anything, but > I'm not hopeful. > > For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the Perl DBI::CSV module > allows you to use a CSV file as a simple SQL database. Very nice if you > don't have a real database to work with (which in this case, Mr. Barton > doesn't). > > I was at a workshop by Randal Schwartz where he showed a bit of how to use > it. Very cool... > > If you can't get the clients to go for the extra cost, I'd recommend going > with Perl. Choose the best tool for the job at hand, TMTOWTDI. > > Paul > > <?php > while ($self != "asleep") { > $sheep_count++; > } > ?> > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ---------- Dan Barton Terrestrial Program Biologist Asst. Data Manager Point Reyes Bird Observatory http://www.prbo.org dbarton@prbo.org dbarton@grayflycatcher.org