March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
21h 29m
English
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Name
DBM-Style Database Abstraction
Synopsis
For very simple database installations, you can use the DBM-style database abstraction library. These functions allow you to store records in simple database files. The database files created through this library store simple key/value pairs and are not intended as replacements for full-scale relational databases.
To use these functions, you must install the appropriate library and
compile PHP with the appropriate options:
--with-dbm for original Berkeley database files
(see DBM),
--with-ndbm for the newer Berkeley database style,
--with-gdbm for GNU’s version of
DBM, --with-db2 or --with-db3
for Sleepycat Software’s DB2 and DB3, and
--with-cdb for Cdb support.