Micro Focus Cobol PHP Extension

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This PHP extension permits you to access on tables (a C ISAM variation of files .idx and .dat) created with Micro Focus Cobol. The extension is based on VBISAM opensource project with some modification in order to become compliant with Micro Focus Cobol / Informix C-ISAM file type. Micro Focus C-ISAM files are used often in company management software as SPIGA X III UNIX.

Here you can see the completion status of extension and in which system it's tested.

Table of functions implemented and tested

mfcobol_0.103.0b	build	open	close	insert	replace	exists	fetch	delete	get_info	comp3encode	comp3decode
Linux Debian/Ubuntu + PHP 5.2.3
Mac OS X	some problem while compiling vbisam framework…
Windows	not yet supported

It's possible to explore sourcecode in sourceforge.net svn repository here:

http://phpmfcobol.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmfcobol/

or SMOS.org repository:

http://sources.smos.org/cgi-bin/perl_svn.pl?p=MFCobol

The documentation page is available here

The download section is available here.

A brief HOW-TO to install the php extension is available here

You can use the forum page on sourceforge.net here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=725196

You can also report bugs on sourceforge.net tracker here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=203220&atid=984716

mfcobol was created and implemented by Giuseppe Chiesa @ SMOS Research Team. For further information and feedback you can write me at gchiesa@smos.org .

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