Setting Berkeley DB as default database

Hi I would like to access the index files created by a program called Perlfect (perlfect.com) that are said to be in Berkeley database format. My PHP installation however has This is GDBM version 1.8.0 I have searched the web for advice on this, and only really found one place that talks about editing the aclocal file to change the order - I tried this but it doesn't appear to help, even after re-installing PHP I would really appreciate it if anyone has more concrete suggestions about how to set up PHP to access Berkeley db By the way if I try the function dba_open $id = dba_open('docs', 'r', 'db2'); this is what I get: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dba_open() in ... if $id = dbmopen('docs', 'r'); then I get Warning: dbmopen_gdbm(docs): 7 [Bad magic number], 0 [Success] in .... Thanks Candy -- ################################ # Candy Day # candy@medg.lcs.mit.edu # or candy@healthlink.org.za