Re: eCommerce with PHP and MySQL
| From: | Andreas Karajannis | Date: | Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:41:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: eCommerce with PHP and MySQL | ||
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Tom Carter wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry if this is an old hat question, but I figured its best to speak to
> those who know best ;o)
>
> We're planning to implement a series of eConmerce solutions using PHP with
> a db backend. Initially our thoughts were to use MySQL as this is what we
> have (successfully) used before for other (non eCommerce) projects. Are
> there advantages to using other DB systems (extra features etc.)?
>
For a discussion of MySQL disadvantages for eCommerce see:
http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html
As for the recently introduced transaction support in MySQL:
Remember that this is alpha Software and declared to be "experimental";
I wouldn't want to use it on a production system.
-Andreas