Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 03/03/05 16:14

Jochem Maas wrote:
> Chris W. Parker wrote:
>
>> Chris W. Parker <>
>> on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:38 AM said:
>>
>>
>>> Gerben <mailto:gerbendekeijzer@12move.nl>
>>> on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:22 AM said:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for all your responses, but I think I wasn't clear enough of
>>>> my intentions. Actually, that what I'm looking for; A database
>>>> engine written in PHP.
>>>
>>>
>>> Even if something like this did exist why would you want it over
>>> MySQL?
>>
>>
>>
>> Now for something more constructive: I found this
>> http://www.c-worker.ch/txtdbapi/index_eng.php.
>>
>
> if Gerben was to use this then why wouldn't he want to use SQLite,
> which is the same idea (SQL interface to flatfile storage) but written
> by the PHP devs (in C, so its much faster + I think you can assume the
> devs really
> know what they are doing) and included as std. in PHP5?
sqlite isn't written by the php devs. It's simply included in the
distributions; just like bcmath is.
SQLite itself is a free OS library, usable by pretty much everyone

>
> that said the TXTDB package does look good and if you are using PHP4
> then maybe
> you should go with that instead (PHP4 does not have SQLite AFAICR)
>
>>
>>
>> Chris.
>>

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