Php Text Database API Manual

Copyright (C) 2003 by c-worker.ch

If you wanted to make a dynamic PHP-Website you had two choices:

1. You could save your Data in Text-Files in a self defined format. This has one big
disadvantage: You'll have none of the advantages a SQL Database could provide,
such as performing common SQL commands like SELECT, INSERT, or UPDATE, as well as
filtering or setting the order of a result.

2. You could host your website on a webserver that supports a database software, but
websites hosted on such servers regularly cost extra money.

That's where the "Txt-Db-API" could help.
With the "Txt-Db-API" you can access normal Text Files like a SQL Database.
You don't need any special Database Software on the Webserver, yet you can still use SQL!
You can use the API to create, query, change, or delete tables, and you don't
have to bother with the Text-Files themse. Almost everthing can be done with
the included API calls.

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!!!NEW!!! A lot of features where added in Version 0.2.0-Alpha-01.
See the changelog!

!!! IMPORTANT !!! The Table-File Format changed in the versions 0.1.5-Alpha-01 and
0.1.3-Alpha-02. Read more about this here!

Read this documents first:

Installation
Design/Structure/Understand and use the API

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Version: 0.2.1-Beta-01
(Help Version matches API Version)

Newest PHP Version the API is compatible with: 4.3.1 (4.3.2RC2 does NOT work)
Minimum required PHP version: 4.1.0 (not sure)

Latest Version and additional Infos:

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