Re: IBM DB/2 + PHP4

> I have a similar question, so even if you don't have an ODBC driver on your > box (I'm in linux) you can still use the odbc functions to talk to a db2 > database if you supply the config paramater? just making sure, it seems > kinda hackish, you might want to document this somewhere :P DB2 is one of several databases covered by the Unified-ODBC code in PHP. Unified-ODBC confuses a lot of people. In as simple a way as I can put it: Some databases use a native API modelled after the CLI (Call Level Interface) specification. We found that we had 5 or 6 different PHP database modules that were mostly identical because the native API calls were the same for the various databases. Instead of trying to maintain the same code in 6 different files, we combined it into a single unified file. When you build PHP using --with-ibm-db2 you tell PHP to use the unified odbc driver file in its DB2 mode. At the PHP user-level you use the ODBC function calls. This doesn't mean you are using the ODBC wire protocol. Behind the scenes these PHP calls go directly to the linked in native CLI library provided with DB2. So, even though you are typing odbc_connect(), there is actually no ODBC going on here. -Rasmus