wantstolearnphp Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Is there a shell i'm supposed to be opening somewhere? I've got WAMP server 2.1 installed with PHP.5.3.5.. and if there is a shell so I can enter this command and set the switches or flags I've been reading about so I can manipulate dbm databases. The php manual talks about the things I should do but nothing tells me specifically where the hell I need to run these commands. I followed sever tutorials and nothing has been working for me. I've got a application I'm working on that currently saves customer information in files, outputs the info just added to the file, then allows you to delete them and I really want to keep learning but am having quite a bit of trouble finding where to enter these commands. What am I missing? I feel like its right in front of my eyes... I've tried going into the directory i have php and running the cli and cgi from there out of desperation. Just opens up a shell which I cannot do anything with... am i just stupid? and if I am please someone spell this process out for me so I use set dba handlers and create dbm database so I can move on to SQL after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 ./configure is a command for linux, not windows. configure is one of the steps when compiling a program from source code. On windows you won't have a compiler available unless you've installed one yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wantstolearnphp Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Ok so I'm not completely nuts... how am I to make it so I can work with dbm databases on my machine then? What do I have to do? How do I use php to manipulate the databases on a windows system? Download a compiler to compile what? PHP or php source? I'm so confused! Is there something I can add in my php scripts that will make the dba functions available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 I don't know what a dbm database is. php has drivers for mysql, mssql, and with odbc you can use other databases that have odbc drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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