Can I use Delphi to write to BDE and PHP to read from it?

Question

I strongly prefer not to use additional 3rd party components, libraries or DLLs (at least in v1.0), unless there is absolutely no other solution.

Question: (how) can I use Delphi to progrtiamatically crate a BDE database and write to it, then use PHP to read from it?

Any URLs for examples of tutorial?

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People are advising against it. Ok, the ultimate goal is some form of ODBC interface anyway. Someone mentioned ADO to me, but I don't see how to install it.

I need to crate the entire database and contents programatically in Delphi - at run time - I have no idea of it's contents or even name at compile time.

What's the simplest route for me? Thanks

Answer 1

Sounds like a bad idea to me, to be honest. BDE is long-since deprecated and I seriously doubt if you could get PHP to jive with it.

I would recommend using a standard database such as Firebird or MySQL for which established Delphi and PHP libraries exist, or XML if the dataset is not too large.

Answer 2

By BDE you mean Paradox or DBase? Wouldn't recomment using those anymore. I moved into Firebird and MySQL years ago just like Alan recommends.

Delphi supports Firebird/Interbase database out of the box AFAIK and PHP libraries exist for it. Other way around : MySQL support is in all PHP installations and there are some very good components for Delphi