Gremory Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Hello. I am having problems accessing my dbf files with PHP. I've been searching for a while for a solution, but can't seem to find a working one. Here is my current situation: I have a CentOS Server, in which I've placed my dbf files. I can open these with dbase functions, but I'm limited to my queries, since I have thousands of records. I've been trying something similar to this: <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', '1'); $data_source = 'DRIVER={Microsoft dBASE Driver (*.dbf)};datasource=/home/dir/file.dbf;'; //$data_source = 'DRIVER={Microsoft dBASE Driver (*.dbf)};DriverID=277;datasource=/home/dir/file.dbf;'; $user=''; $password=''; $conn=odbc_connect($data_source,$user,$password); if (!$conn) { exit("Connection Failed:" . odbc_errormsg() ); } ?> I get the following error output: Warning: odbc_connect() [function.odbc-connect]: SQL error: [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified, SQL state IM002 in SQLConnect in /home/dir/index.php on line 45 Connection Failed:[unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/200658-oppening-dbf-file-with-odbc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremory Posted May 5, 2010 Author Share Posted May 5, 2010 update: I've been reading alot, and I noticed I had to install unixODBC, easysoft drivers and freetds to manage my ODBC. Now, I can't seem to find the right drivers to register in my odbcinst.ini, so that I can use them in the odbc.ini file. I should be looking for drivers compatible with dBASE right? Gosh this is getting really troublesome. I think I'll go with another solution. Since I can't seem to make a query like "select * from table where id = 123" with dBASE, because I have multiple dbf files and need to check all the rows. I might dump all the files into a mysql db. So, everytime I need to update the tables, I just press a button, and I'll update the tables... I think this might be the best solution for my problem, since it is kind of urgent. I'de like to hear some feedback, thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/200658-oppening-dbf-file-with-odbc/#findComment-1053504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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