[GRLUG] LAMP [PHP] -> ODBC

[Justin Denick]

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
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