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    Introducere

    Notă:

    Această extensie a fost transferată în repozitoriul » PECL și nu mai este furnizată împreună cu PHP începând cu versiunea 5.3.0.

    These functions allow you to access records stored in dBase-format (dbf) databases.

    Avertizare

    We recommend against using dBase files as your production database. Use » SQLite or choose any real SQL server instead; » MySQL or » Postgres are common choices with PHP. dBase support is here to allow you to import and export data to and from your web database, because the file format is commonly understood by Windows spreadsheets and organizers.

    Precauţie

    As of dbase 7.0.0 the databases are automatically locked via flock(). There has been no support for locking earlier, so two concurrent web server processes modifying the same dBase file would have very likely ruined your database. This can happen even with dbase 7.0.0+ on systems which implement the locks at the process level with multithreaded SAPIs.

    dBase files are simple sequential files of fixed length records. Records are appended to the end of the file and deleted records are kept until you call dbase_pack().

    Only dbf file levels 3 (dBASE III+) - 5 (dBASE V) are supported. The types of dBase fields available are:

    Available types of fields
    Field dBase Type Format Additional information
    M Memo n/a This type is not supported by PHP, such field will be ignored
    D Date YYYYMMDD The field length is limited to 8
    T DateTime YYYYMMDDhhmmss.uuu (FoxPro) No validity checks are done. Available as of dbase 7.0.0.
    N Number A number You must declare a length and a precision (the number of digits after the decimal point).
    F Float A float number Same as N. Available as of PHP 5.2.0
    C String A string You must declare a length. When retrieving data, the string will be right-padded with spaces to fit the declared length. Overlong strings will be silently truncated when storing data.
    L Boolean T or Y for true, F or N for false, ? for uninitialized. As of dbase 7.0.0, returned as a bool (true or false), or null for uninitialized fields. Formerly, returned as an int (1 or 0).

    Notă:

    As of dbase 7.0.0 nullable fields are supported for DBASE_TYPE_FOXPRO databases. If a field is nullable, passing null will set the respective flag, and on later retrieval the field value will be null.

    Notă:

    There is no support for indexes or memo fields.

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    oto dot brglez at agenda dot si
    15 years ago
    If you have xls or ods file with data. You can open file in OpenOffice Calc and save the table as dbf (dBase file) and the use this extension to manipulate data.

    Usualy this gives better results than just saving as XML. or CSV.
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