RE: [PHP-DB] IBM DB/2 + PHP4

I think it should include the names of the 5 or 6 databases being accessed this way. Actually, I'm hoping that someone will post them now. Bob Hall -----Original Message----- From: Teodor Cimpoesu [mailto:teo@digiro.net] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:50 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] IBM DB/2 + PHP4 Hi Rasmus! On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > 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. I think this useful reply from Rasmus should go into a README.odbc ... -- teodor -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net