Re: Informix IDS2000 and Zope/Python/Perl/PHP on Linux

Hello, Thomas Volkmar Worm wrote: > > Hi all! > > I am consindering to use Informix Dynamic Server (Informix Internet > Foundation 2000/Linux) together with Zope and the other 3 P's. > > I wonder, whether somebody has any experience with Linux and > > - IDS 2000 and Perl > or > - IDS 2000 and PHP > or > - IDS 2000 and Python > or > - IDS 2000 and Zope > > and can tell me about the experience he made with one or more of these > combinations. I am interested to hear about > > - availibility of the needed drivers > - their (practical) compatibility to (eg. perl DBI, python DB-API 2.0, > etc.) > - stability > - and what else someone has experienced > > I already was an php.net, python.org, perl.org, zope.org - I guess I > know whats available. It looks to me as if the support for IDS is not so > strong, so I am really interested in real experience somebody had rather > that what you can read in the READMEs. If you stopped using IDS together > with P..., please tell me why and what db (other than mySQL, thats > allready running here) are you using instead. For PHP you may want try Metabase which is a database abstraction layer that lets you develop portable database applications. It supports Informix and I have tested it all right with IDS 2000 on Linux. You may want to look for it in here: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20 Manuel Lemos