You could use Access via ODBC, I usually don't recomend M$ Access because
it's not multithreaded, but if what you're building is going to be
relatively low traffic you'll get by. You can read/write text files also.

odbc
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.odbc.php

text files
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: PHP and databases.


> I've got a website host that allows PHP but doesn't offer MySQL
> capabilities.  I'm new to PHP, having more of an ASP background, and was
> wondering if there's a way to mimic a database using PHP that wouldn't
> require MySQL.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>

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