summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/ext/dba
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPeter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com>2019-03-19 20:26:07 +0100
committerPeter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com>2019-03-19 20:26:07 +0100
commit61d9e53ed9c5bfcb9d5537ee26ae56797e4f0bde (patch)
treeaa3a7a36e752fa5e1c5258b6ffd453440c2cf92e /ext/dba
parenta25348a03a710fa87f80055f1d950af78fb55fc6 (diff)
parent38b22448f819aff57157d6f84d4cf3c88bcb657d (diff)
downloadphp-git-61d9e53ed9c5bfcb9d5537ee26ae56797e4f0bde.tar.gz
Merge branch 'PHP-7.4'
* PHP-7.4: Remove extension readmes
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/dba')
-rw-r--r--ext/dba/README54
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/ext/dba/README b/ext/dba/README
deleted file mode 100644
index ec0610b71f..0000000000
--- a/ext/dba/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-These functions build the foundation for accessing Berkeley DB style
-databases.
-
-This is a general abstraction layer for several file-based databases. As
-such, functionality is limited to a common subset of features supported
-by modern databases such as Sleepycat Software's DB2. (This is not to be
-confused with IBM's DB2 software, which is supported through the ODBC
-functions.)
-
-This extensions allows to work with the following databases:
-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 Sleepycat Software's DB2. It's described as "a programmatic
- toolkit that provides high-performance built-in database support
- for both standalone and client/server applications.
-db3 DB3 is Sleepycat Software's DB3.
-db4 DB4 is Sleepycat Software's DB4. This is available since PHP 5.0.
-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. And since PHP 4.3.0 we support
- writing (not updating) through the internal cdb library.
-cdb_make Since PHP 4.3.0 we support creation (not updating) of cdb files
- when the bundled cdb library is used.
-flatfile This is available since PHP 4.3.0 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 since PHP 4.3.3 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 a new function dba_key_split()
- available since PHP 5 which allows to convert the string keys into
- array keys without losing FALSE.
-qdbm This is available since PHP 5.0.0. The qdbm library can be loaded
- from http://qdbm.sourceforge.net.
-
-
-After configuring and compiling PHP you must execute the following test
-from commandline:
- php run-tests.php ext/dba.
-This shows whether your combination of handlers works. Most problematic
-are dbm and ndbm which conflict with many installations. The reason for
-this is that on several systems these libraries are part of more than one
-other library. The configuration test only prevents you from configuring
-malfaunctioning single handlers but not combinations.