[ale] DBF data to web

[Jeff Hubbs]

.DBF was the extension for dBase data files.  Tom didn't say if the .dbf
file HAD TO REMAIN ACCESSIBLE to dBase; there could be a snag there if so. 

If it is OK to port the data to something Linux-native (e.g., MySQL), then
Zope (www.zope.org) would be excellent for this sort of thing, if Tom knew
how to do that (I don't - at least not yet). 

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Bergeron [mailto:christopher at bergeron.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 5:38 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
> 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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