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. > hi! Rasmus, could You let us know, what are those databases? I I tried to find it in manual, but there is no such info TIA Remigiusz -- -------------------------------------------------------------------.------------ Remigiusz Sokolowski e-mail: rems@wp.pl / \ -----------------------------------------------------------------`---'----------