On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:03, James Marcinek wrote:

> I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask:
>
> 1.) Are there built in libraries to connect to DB2?
> Nothings clear from the documentation I've read. I see
> that there's libraries for Oracle, Informix, MySQL.

Apparently so, ask google.

> 2.) If there is a DB2 library(support or whatever its
> called, someone enlighten me please with the correct
> term!) does anyone know if the Red Hat rpm comes with
> the option to support this turned on?

Ask RedHat?

> 3.) I'm just coming across some information about
> PEAR. My question to this: Is it better to use PEAR
> than the regular libraries included?

What exactly do you mean by "the regular libraries included"? Basically using 
the PEAR libraries will save you from re-inventing many wheels, the downside 
being the extra overhead required. www.phpclasses.org is also a great source 
of classes/libraries.

> Anything else anyone could tell me would be great!

Depends on what you want to know. Almost every problem that you will come 
across will be covered in:

 - the php manual
 - the list archives
 - google

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