dba-php-requirements-7

  • Installing/Configuring
  • Requirements

  • Requirements
  • Requirements

    Requirements

    The behaviour of various aspects depends on the
    implementation of the underlying database. Functions such as
    dba_optimize() and dba_sync() will do what they promise for one
    database and will do nothing for others. You have to download and
    install supported dba-Handlers.

    List of DBA handlers
    Handler Notes
    dbm Dbm is the oldest (original) type of Berkeley DB style
    databases. You should avoid it, if possible. We do not support the
    compatibility functions built into DB2 and gdbm, because they are
    only compatible on the source code level, but cannot handle the
    original dbm format.
    ndbm Ndbm is a newer type and more flexible than dbm. It still has
    most of the arbitrary limits of dbm (therefore it is
    deprecated).
    gdbm Gdbm is the » GNU database manager.
    db2 DB2 is for » Oracle Berkeley DB 2. It is
    described as “a programmatic toolkit that provides high-performance
    built-in database support for both standalone and client/server
    applications.”
    db3 DB3 is for » Oracle Berkeley DB 3.
    db4 DB4 is for » Oracle Berkeley DB 4 or 5. This
    option can be used with BDB 5 as of PHP 5.3.3.
    cdb Cdb is “a fast, reliable, lightweight package for creating and
    reading constant databases.” It is from the author of qmail and can
    be found at » http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html. Since it
    is constant, we support only reading operations. We support writing
    (not updating) through the internal cdb library.
    cdb_make We support creation (not updating) of cdb files when the
    bundled cdb library is used.
    flatfile This is available for compatibility with the deprecated
    dbm extension only and should be avoided. However you may
    use this where files were created in this format. That happens when
    configure could not find any external library.
    inifile This is available to be able to modify php.ini files from
    within PHP scripts. When working with ini files you can pass arrays
    of the form array(0=>group,1=>value_name) or strings of the
    form “[group]value_name” where group is optional. As the functions
    dba_firstkey() and dba_nextkey() return string representations
    of the key there is the function dba_key_split() which allows to convert the
    string keys into array keys without loosing
    FALSE.
    qdbm The qdbm library can be downloaded from » http://fallabs.com/qdbm/index.html.
    tcadb This is available since PHP 5.4.0. The Tokyo Cabinet library
    can be downloaded from » http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/.
    lmdb This is available since PHP 7.2.0. The Lightning Memory-Mapped
    Database library can be downloaded from » https://symas.com/lmdb/.

    When invoking the dba_open() or
    dba_popen() functions, one of the handler
    names must be supplied as an argument. The actually available list
    of handlers is displayed by invoking phpinfo() or dba_handlers().