dBase数据库

dBase数据库是在个人电脑上使用的单机版数据库系统，dBase的系统包括核心数据库引擎、查询系统、表单引擎、与一个脚本编程语言。

Unfortunately the dbase functions are not compiled into my commercial server's php and I needed to read some geo data in shape files, which include data in dbfs.
So maybe this will help some others:
<?php
function echo_dbf($dbfname) {
    $fdbf = fopen($dbfname,'r');
    $fields = array();
    $buf = fread($fdbf,32);
    $header=unpack( "VRecordCount/vFirstRecord/vRecordLength", substr($buf,4,8));
    echo 'Header: '.json_encode($header).'
';
    $goon = true;
    $unpackString='';
    while ($goon && !feof($fdbf)) { // read fields:
        $buf = fread($fdbf,32);
        if (substr($buf,0,1)==chr(13)) {$goon=false;} // end of field list
        else {
            $field=unpack( "a11fieldname/A1fieldtype/Voffset/Cfieldlen/Cfielddec", substr($buf,0,18));
            echo 'Field: '.json_encode($field).'
';
            $unpackString.="A$field[fieldlen]$field[fieldname]/";
            array_push($fields, $field);}}
    fseek($fdbf, $header['FirstRecord']+1); // move back to the start of the first record (after the field definitions)
    for ($i=1; $i