Re: can i use --with-unixODBC instead of --with-ibm-db2?

Matt, I wish you were my boss :) I love MySQL and would want to use it instead of db2 (seeing i could probably have had it working with php last week ;) ) but.... Somehow my boss loves to waste money on IBM products....... and then hires on people who don't know how to use them well (i.e. me!). My philosophy is: don't waste money on it, if you can use some open source -- for example he wanted to use IBM WAS (websphere application server) but, PHP will do everything we need to do, and is a lot easier to deal with than the bulky WAS. Anyways......... I had seen the IBM document that you referenced about connecting DB2 to PHP, in fact, it's the main document i used to start attempting to get PHP to work with DB2. The second doc you referenced from phpbuilder.net was definately a good find -- had a couple ideas that i hadn't tried (i.e. catalogging the db, running apache as db2inst1 [still trying to get that to work, db2inst1 doesn't have the priviledges that root has, and henceforth can't access all the files needed by apache]) Matt, thanks again for all your help! -Doug "Matt" <mschroebel@epooch.com> wrote in message news:047001c23f46$f7707c40$299aa8c0@epooch.com... > It seems way too difficult to configure db2 on linux. Let alone trying to do > it on freebsd, which I hope to tackle that next week. > > I tell you though, I really love mysql, it's so easy to use, and configure. > mysql just works. mysql's performance on a table I have that has roughly > 250,000 rows of address entries, beats our as/400 with db2 by orders of > magnitude and mytest box is a Celeron 300. > > Anyway, this is where I found the solution to the gibberish line that I put > in my doc (see step 3) : > http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/dmdd/library/techarticle/scott/0614_scott.html > > You may find this of help: > http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/php-db/2001011/0076.php > > Oh, did you call your instance db2inst1? > >