Re: SAP DB
| From: | Alex Black | Date: | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:21:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SAP DB | ||
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> SAP DB is just another name for AdabasD from a programmers point of view-
Ah, cool.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.odbc.php
Well, yes.
> " In addition to normal ODBC support, the Unified ODBC functions in PHP allow
> you to access several databases that have borrowed the semantics of the ODBC
> API to implement their own API. Instead of maintaining multiple database
> drivers that were all nearly identical, these drivers have been unified
> into a single set of ODBC functions."
>
> so the call interface to AdabasD/SapDB looks like ODBC, but you have
> direct access to the database using PHP, you don't have to deal with
> ODBC driver management and all the stuff if you don't want you
AHA!
Fantastic!
> as said above: it is all there ... just the documentation could need
> a little update ...
Yes, As I didn't know that SAPDB = AdabasD I was unaware...
In any case you have made my day, thank you :)
All on bc-dev... hehehehe, + excellent +.
and Mike, I'm going to use this. (as I suspect you will as well)
_alex