RE: [PHP-DB] file dsn's or direct specification

Hi Avrum, ODBC itself supports 'DSN-less' connects, e.g. you could use something like this in your connect string: Driver={OpenLink Generic 32 Bit Driver};HOST=localhost;ServerType=SQLServer 7;Database=pubs;UID=sa;PWD= Hope this helps! Best regards, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------- Andrew Hill Professional Services Consultant OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com Universal Database Connectivity Technology Providers -----Original Message----- From: Avrum Goodblatt [mailto:goodblat@sprynet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:06 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] file dsn's or direct specification I've looked through the archives and cannot find a definitive answer to the following questions: 1. is it possible to use file dsn's for odbc with php? 2. is it possible to directly specify, instead of using a dsn i.e. odbc_connect(odbc;driver= ... Some comments seem to imply that neither can be done. Does anyone know for sure? -------------------------------------------------- Avrum Goodblatt goodblat@sprynet.com (415) 9451368 http://home.sprynet.com/~goodblat -- 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