Posted by nc on 12/03/05 17:51

"Sean" <oreilly.sean@gmail.com> wrote:
>I assume you mean by datafile a database?

Yes, exactly (.dbf, .mdb, .csv, .asc, ...). Thanks for
the correct inference.

> The most common database used with php is mysql.
> Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP are used so routinely
> together that the group of technologies sis simply
> called LAMP. (might include perl or python as well).
>
> However php 5 does come with a database bundled
> with it called sqlite. Docs on this are http://php.net/sqlite.
> It supports view and transactions and is actually quite
> handy.

The server is running apache with php 4.3. And there's
MySQL there as well. Do you (or anyone else) know
if there's a tool similar to Access for creating visual
links and such when messing with MySQL? If no,
anyone know of any suggested links for getting feet wet?
And possibly something describing the details of how it's
set up, ie database filenames used to store the files, db
file formats, etc. I'd like to get a hold of a file and view
it with a hex-editor. You were right on (target) in your
inferences.

> PHP will work on apache with mod_php and IIS. Most
> prefer to use php with apache; I personally would never
> use php with IIS for a production environment, mainly
> because IIS is complete crap and extensive crap at
> that. But I know people who have php on IIS and
> have no problems with it.

Are you refering to a particular version of IIS?

Thanks much.

Ralph.

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