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These functions allow you to access records stored in dBase-format
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(dbf) databases.
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There is no support for indexes or memo fields. There is no support
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for locking, too. Two concurrent webserver processes modifying the
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same dBase file will very likely ruin your database.
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dBase files are simple sequential files of fixed length records.
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Records are appended to the end of the file and delete records are
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kept until you call dbase_pack().
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We recommend that you do not use dBase files as your production
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database. Choose any real SQL server instead; MySQL or Postgres are
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common choices with PHP. dBase support is here to allow you to
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import and export data to and from your web database, because the
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file format is commonly understood by Windows spreadsheets and
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organizers.
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