FW: PHP and databases? ...without MySQL and such

> Hello All,
> 
> 	I am somewhat new to PHP and I have a question relating 
> to FLAT FILE databases.  First let me give an introduction to 
> my question.
> 
> I used to work at a company (www.miva.com) where we developed 
> our own scripting language "Miva Script", so my only 
> experience with PHP was for comparison and such.  The company 
> was not doing so good and was barley afloat, so I left.  In 
> my efforts to find a new scripting language I choose PHP over 
> ColdFusion, even though Miva Script was so similar to 
> ColdFusion.  I am loving PHP, I never realized just how 
> extensive PHP is.  Now I am at a big company where "red tape" 
> has to be dealt with before I could get access to a database 
> server.  With the Miva Script language it has it's own 
> built-in database (dBASE-DBF), so databases were never a 
> problem with web development.  So, I am stuck with either 
> using PHP and finding a solution "or" reverting to Miva 
> Script, which I do NOT want to do, of course I want to stay 
> with PHP.  I have been doing some research on google.com and 
> such and have not found too much information on PHP with Flat 
> File or DBF databases.  I did find some PHP scripts working 
> with Flat File databases, but not really what I need.  Does 
> anyone have any suggestions, or is PHP mostly just for MySQL and such.
> 
> I am developing some PHP classes/functions that are utilizing 
> "file()" and "array()" to read and edit my flat files.  It's 
> not perfected yet and I am running into difficulties here and 
> there and this is why am I asking for any opinions or 
> comments on available resources.  When I get done with it 
> I'll post it for free at www.ideablue.com (my personal site). 
>  Well, I do give thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> NOTE: I think PHP is a great language and I do hope to stick 
> with it.  There are many great resources like 
> www.phpbuilder.com, www.phpbeginner.com and the extensive 
> documentation at www.php.net.  Thanks to all that help us new 
> PHP developers.
> 
> 	John Negretti
> 	Web Applications Developer
> 	Cox Communications www.cox.com
> 
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