Note the “c” create flag does not work if MySQL was built with the “cdb” DBA handler compile option which is common for many distros. By definition the cdb DBA handler is optimized for reading/writing and “no updates are allowed.”
<?php
$dbh = dba_open( "./data2/productz", "c", "cdb") or die( "Couldn't open Database" );
?>
instead use
<?php
$dbh = dba_open( "./data2/productz", "n", "cdb" ) or die( "Couldnt open Database" );
?>
generates this error message in the /var/log/apache2/error.log:
[Sun Sep 06 04:18:15 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.125] PHP Warning: dba_open(./data2/productz,c) [<a href='function.dba-open'>function.dba-open</a>]: Driver initialization failed for handler: cdb: Update operations are not supported in /var/www/projects/testcdb-c.php on line 43
see user contributed comment under dba_handlers() to see which DBA handlers are supported by your build of MySQL and note about using “cdb” compiled DBA systems:
also see user contributed comment under dba_replace() about incompatibilities with cdb DBA handler compiled MySQL systems.
