Hi Dave,
ODBC is probably your best bet but if your working on Unix/Linux it can
be a bit of a problem as ODBC is primarily a Microsoft system. I'm working
on something like this for my final year degree project. My script's are
being developed using Postgres but the final version will use M
Hello Dave,
On 17-Feb-01 01:52:57, you wrote:
>I haven't seen this issue discussed, sorry if I missed it:
>My question is why are the PHP database functions so unportable? Is there a
>reason why they have to be specific to, say MySQL. It seems to me (even
Different databases provide differen
Dave,
The ODBC functions in PHP mostly address this. A good ODBC driver will also
translate full SQL92 functionality into the underlying dialect that the
database supports.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Andrew
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-Original Message-
From: Dallas Kropka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:19 PM
To: Dave Haggerty; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Database Code Portability
Try taking a
Try taking a look at the ADODB class written by the people at
www.phpeverywhere.com (net?) We are using this code. it supports all major
functions of 9 different databases and is very solid.
-Original Message-
From: Dave Haggerty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 16
This topic is covered a lot. Right now there are two major DB abstraction
packages, Manuel Lemos' Metabase (
http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20 ) and the one that is
distrubuted with PHP located in your distributions PEAR directory. Try both,
see which one works better for
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