DBM Functions on Windows98

From: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:55:28 +0000
Subject: DBM Functions on Windows98
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Hi, I finally got PHP 4.04 installed and working with the Windows98 PWS (took me a while to realize you need to copy PHP4TS.DLL to the Windows folder!). I'm trying to write a script that uses simple DBM database functions; I un-commented the extension=php_db.dll line in the php.ini and was able to successfully execute the dbmopen() statement. It seems, however, that DBM doesn't function correctly with Windows98. The results I get back with the dbmfetch() command are pretty much garbage (for example, if I write "Hello World" then fetch it back, it prints out something like "ello World10". I have uploaded the same script to my Linux/Apache server and it works perfectly, so I know my syntax is correct. I did some searching around and found some posts about DBM on Windows being buggy (although I would call the results I'm getting something beyond buggy--more like totally unusable). Is there a more up-to-date php_db.dll than the one that's distributed with PHP 4.04? Anyone have any other suggestions? ~ Chris Calabrese WebWorkshop Webmaster http://www.webworkshop.org

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