[imp] Berkeley DB

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:20:33AM -0300, Jose Gracia Neto - CAT wrote:
> so I could use some "shortcut" instructions on how to set these programs 
> together. During PHP installation, it says to compile it with auth_db and 
> auth_dbm, which use BerkeleyDB.
> 
> My question is: Is BerkeleyDB really necessary for IMP? If so, what does it 
> do for IMP or PHP?

You dont say which version of IMP, but I'll assume 2.2.x

You can configure PHPLib to use a DBM file for the sessions
handling, but it is optional - other people use
a database or shared memory as well.

Anil