[Merlinwork-developers] PHP Text DB Source

[D. M. <li...@mf...>]

I'm not doing anything with Merlin at the moment, so I decided that I
really should post the minor little things I did to get it working for a
quick project I did. It was for a website that didn't have access to any
database, so I got PHP Text DB working with the system. It doesn't do
everything, but the basic functionality seems to be operational. It is
also a nice little package with a simple text-based SQL engine.

I'll try attaching the zip file that contains the various bits and
pieces. Nope, SF is blocking zip attachments. Okay, I'm putting it at:

  http://www.mfgames.com/merlin-txt-db.zip

(This link should be valid until at least January 1, 2005.)

This follows most of the directory structure that is already
there, but it adds a databases/ directory somewhere in the tree. See the
config file for the settings that are required. I also included the
library, there is one minor change from the core PHP-Text-DB system, to set the
variables properly.

I also included an example of how to use it
(objects/source_pay_status.php) as a source for the data sets.

As I mentioned before, I'm not doing anything with Merlin right now and
someone in the future might want to use it on a site that doesn't allow
a database, but still want to  use the database functionality.

Cheers,
Dylan