[ale] DBF data to web

[Lathe]

I think the key here is the M$ Access.  I think it's more than just flat
text and more along the lines of a database file.  Pearl would work, but I
suspect there's going to be more work, and it wouldn't be a matter of
parsing and reg ex.  The data is most likely serialized and therefore would
require record manipulation from within the database.

An Oracle solution may be more of what you are looking for, but then again,
I could be wrong about the whole thing anyway...
 ;)

Scott Warfield


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From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Christopher Bergeron
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:38 PM
To: Tom Younker
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] DBF data to web


Do you want the file formatted or just displayed?  are DBF files just flat
text?  if so, you can just make it readable by apache and it will be web
accessible.  if you want to format it, your best bet would be to use PERL
and parse it out to a webpage.  using perl: input the DBF file, format it
(with html tags, etc) and make it a .cgi program.  should be relatively
straight forward.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Tom
To: ale at ale.org
Younker
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 7:40 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] DBF data to web


All:

Need a quick way to take DOS-based .DBF file data and make it accessable
from a web server.  The Micro$oft-brained consultant naturally thinks to
suck it into Access and somehow make it browseable.

Without writing the app in, say PHP, can't I just use some existing
program to do the same thing in Apache ?

Thanks,
Tom
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