Re: JDBC? Was: [PHP] Hello! PHP

No - PHP has it's own drivers, just like perl has it's own (DBI), and java has it's own (JDBC). As for PHP's abstraction layer, PHP comes built with one for dbm style db's (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dba.php), but not for sql type db's. Several abstraction layer projects for sql db's have been mentioned on the list - I have never used any of them - just the db-specific API's. Try ADODB - there's a tutorial here: http://php.weblogs.com/adodb_tutorial J on 3/17/01 1:10 PM, andrew at andrew@salamander.net wrote: > > actually, just wondering if PHP can use JDBC drivers to connect to > databases. what is the 'abstracted db layer' that you mention? > > regards, > andrew > > > On 3/17/01 2:52 PM, "Julian Wood" <woodj@ucalgary.ca> wrote: > >> >> I'm not quite sure what you mean. You use a JDBC driver to connect your java >> program to an sql db. PHP has an abstracted db layer which parallels the >> function of JDBC for the php environment. PHP also has db-specific API's, >> which tend to be somewhat faster and can take advantage of specific db >> features. Does that help? >> >> J >> >> on 3/16/01 7:36 PM, andrew at andrew@salamander.net wrote: >> >>> >>> On a related noted, does PHP have JDBC support? >>> >>> I'm unable to find anything about this - anyone know if it's possible? >>> >>> regards, >>> andrew >>> >>> >> -- >> Julian Wood >> Learning Technologies and Digital Media >> University of Calgary >> >> > > -- Julian Wood Learning Technologies and Digital Media University of Calgary