From lvl at omnitec.net  Tue Dec 13 15:56:27 2016
From: lvl at omnitec.net (L. V. Lammert)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:56:27 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [GRLUG] LAMP [PHP] -> ODBC
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>

Trying to rebuild an ancient PHP server installation that uses an ODBC
connection to a Windoze box, .. the current solution is dbctp (a la 1987),
which hangs on a regular basis and must be restarted.

Looking at switching to unixODBC (package install, great, current even),
.. but the DB is actually VisualFoxPro and the ODBC driver will not
install on the dev srv 2008 box.

VFP seems to have switched to OLE DB some years ago, but that won't
provide an ODBC connection.

Has anyone dealt with an architecture like this?

        Thanks!

        Lee

From justin.denick at gmail.com  Tue Dec 13 16:00:06 2016
From: justin.denick at gmail.com (Justin Denick)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:00:06 -0500
Subject: [GRLUG] LAMP [PHP] -> ODBC
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
References: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
Message-ID: <B0AF841E-47DF-433B-8030-2B3AB0FD7D27@gmail.com>

I worked on a FoxPro thing which actually stored data in DBF format. I used a perl script to dump it out.
http://search.cpan.org/~janpaz/DBD-XBase-1.03/bin/dbfdump.PL <http://search.cpan.org/~janpaz/DBD-XBase-1.03/bin/dbfdump.PL>
dunno if this will help, but it did the trick for what I needed.



 
> On Dec 13, 2016, at 3:56 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
> Trying to rebuild an ancient PHP server installation that uses an ODBC
> connection to a Windoze box, .. the current solution is dbctp (a la 1987),
> which hangs on a regular basis and must be restarted.
> 
> Looking at switching to unixODBC (package install, great, current even),
> .. but the DB is actually VisualFoxPro and the ODBC driver will not
> install on the dev srv 2008 box.
> 
> VFP seems to have switched to OLE DB some years ago, but that won't
> provide an ODBC connection.
> 
> Has anyone dealt with an architecture like this?
> 
>        Thanks!
> 
>        Lee
> _______________________________________________
> grlug mailing list
> grlug at grlug.org
> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug

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From brousch at gmail.com  Tue Dec 13 16:01:52 2016
From: brousch at gmail.com (Ben Rousch)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:01:52 -0500
Subject: [GRLUG] LAMP [PHP] -> ODBC
In-Reply-To: <B0AF841E-47DF-433B-8030-2B3AB0FD7D27@gmail.com>
References: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
 <B0AF841E-47DF-433B-8030-2B3AB0FD7D27@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOPHfB02utQBauJ97wPWr=hEkRuvjyjA_npuGT=Epg7Fsq52mw@mail.gmail.com>

Way back in the day I used MS Access 97 as a bridge between FoxPro and
ODBC. I mapped all of the tables from FoxPro into Access, then used ODBC to
access Access.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I worked on a FoxPro thing which actually stored data in DBF format. I
> used a perl script to dump it out.
> http://search.cpan.org/~janpaz/DBD-XBase-1.03/bin/dbfdump.PL
> dunno if this will help, but it did the trick for what I needed.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2016, at 3:56 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> Trying to rebuild an ancient PHP server installation that uses an ODBC
> connection to a Windoze box, .. the current solution is dbctp (a la 1987),
> which hangs on a regular basis and must be restarted.
>
> Looking at switching to unixODBC (package install, great, current even),
> .. but the DB is actually VisualFoxPro and the ODBC driver will not
> install on the dev srv 2008 box.
>
> VFP seems to have switched to OLE DB some years ago, but that won't
> provide an ODBC connection.
>
> Has anyone dealt with an architecture like this?
>
>        Thanks!
>
>        Lee
> _______________________________________________
> grlug mailing list
> grlug at grlug.org
> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
>
>
>
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From megadave at gmail.com  Wed Dec 14 02:59:58 2016
From: megadave at gmail.com (Dave Chiodo)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:59:58 -0500
Subject: [GRLUG] LAMP [PHP] -> ODBC
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
References: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
Message-ID: <CAFP7kes3VroD51FeB=hmcRvRByxFyPW34yzmnW2vqdR81ObdcQ@mail.gmail.com>

Have you considered migrating both the application AND the database to
modern platforms, which would eliminate the need for the ODBC jury-rig
completely?

PHP & mysql?PHP/Mysql?

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:56 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Trying to rebuild an ancient PHP server installation that uses an ODBC
> connection to a Windoze box, .. the current solution is dbctp (a la 1987),
> which hangs on a regular basis and must be restarted.
>
> Looking at switching to unixODBC (package install, great, current even),
> .. but the DB is actually VisualFoxPro and the ODBC driver will not
> install on the dev srv 2008 box.
>
> VFP seems to have switched to OLE DB some years ago, but that won't
> provide an ODBC connection.
>
> Has anyone dealt with an architecture like this?
>
>         Thanks!
>
>         Lee
> _______________________________________________
> grlug mailing list
> grlug at grlug.org
> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
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From awilliam at whitemice.org  Wed Dec 14 06:23:57 2016
From: awilliam at whitemice.org (Adam Tauno Williams)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 06:23:57 -0500
Subject: [GRLUG] LAMP [PHP] -> ODBC
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
References: <Pine.BSO.4.53.1612131455140.23033@Mail.omnitec.net>
Message-ID: <1481714637.7367.1.camel@whitemice.org>

On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 14:56 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Trying to rebuild an ancient PHP server installation that uses an
> ODBC connection to a Windoze box, .. the current solution is dbctp (a
> la 1987), which hangs on a regular basis and must be restarted.

A PostgreSQL instance on a Windows box using the Windows ODBC driver
via Foreign Data Wrappers <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_dat
a_wrappers>.

A database engine supporting SQL/MED can solve a lot of data access
issues.

-- 
Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA