Re: PHP and an unsupported DB
| From: | Michael Stearne | Date: | Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:49:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP and an unsupported DB | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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If it's a pretty well defined C API it shouldn't be that hard. Also you can
go through ODBC to get to your FileMaker Pro DB.
Michael
tim_wood wrote:
> If I've signed up on the wrong list for this question, apologies...
>
> There are a number of databases I use depending on who I'm working with.
> Most of the time I use php to talk to the database, except for one case
> --php doesn't support it yet. I'd like to get an idea of how much effort
> it would take to write a basic php interface for another database. There
> are some weird points about the product (FileMaker Pro) but I've got
> several senior engineering contacts at the vendor so I shouldn't have a
> problem getting the documentation I need.
>
> So, a couple of questions:
> 1) anyone on the list who has experience writing db interfaces for php
> who'd be interested in yacking about this?
> 2) can anyone offer me an estimate of what kind of time and programming
> skill this'd involve?
>
> Tim Wood
>
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