I considered that...

Problem is I'm not 100% certain how to set that the correct way... (so as 
not to screw anything else up)

Recommendations?

Thanks

PS It's good to know I wasn't completely off base... thanks millions!

>Does the web server have permission to write to the directory where you
>are trying to create the database? PHP runs as the web server when
>installed as a module and it needs permission to write in that
>directory.
>
>---John Holmes...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Neimeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:19 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PHP] Problems with dbase_create function
> >
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a DBF for exporting selected data as a download to
>the
> > end users... But I can't get further than this...
> >
> >       error_reporting(E_ALL);
> >       $DBFName = "Test.dbf";
> >       $Fields = array( array ("Test","C",32) );
> >       if(dbase_create($DBFName, $Fields))
> >               { echo "Good!"; } else { echo "Bad!"; }
> >
> > It doesn't show an error... and it doesn't create the dbf... it just
>shows
> > "Bad!" and nothing else.
> >
> > Any ideas where I should begin looking? I admit I'm not the most savvy
> > Linux user but I at least got it to admit that the function existed
>(under
> > a freshly compiled php with --enable-dbase on Redhat Linux 7.2)
> >
> > I've also tried $DBFName="./Test.dbf" and
> > "/full_path_from_root_to_html_folder/Test.dbf" and neither work. I've
>also
> > looked through the archives for this list and for the php-db list and
> > haven't seen anything that helps (other than my earlier problem of not
> > having enabled dbase, which appears to be fixed, before it wouldn't
>even
> > show "Bad!". )
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any ideas...
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
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