Re: Extending DB2 odbc support

On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 08:34 PM, tim wrote:

If I take the existing php odbc code and add the ibm-db2 specific extensions, what are the chances of this making it into the main php distribution as a new extension ( ext/ibmdb2 ) ? Is it a good idea to maintain a separate cvs tree on sf.net so it gets some testing first?

I cannot comment directly on the creation of ext/ibmdb2, although I'd rather see something like that moved to PECL (where everything will be eventually). As for separate CVS trees, while it sounds like a good idea, it's my opinion that it's not a good thing. If you can detail/outline the changes you want to make a bit more it might help in the discussion. Right now there is another user extending ODBC to better support IBM DB2 systems.

I am looking to create something similar to oracle's php extension.

What would be the advantages of doing this? What sort of extra functionality is there that implementing such a system will provide to DB2 systems? I'm just trying to get a feel for what you're reasonings, and level of implementation will be.

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