Re: Yahoo/Cobalt servers/PHP
| From: | Austin Marshall | Date: | Sun, 12 May 2002 04:53:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Yahoo/Cobalt servers/PHP | ||
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Todd Cary wrote:
One of my clients signed up for service at Yahoo for space on a Cobalt server. The specs say that it has Php and Interbase. I go to the server and do a phpinfo() and find out that Interbase is not compiled into PHP but MySQL is. Then I find out that MySQL is *not* installed on the server. Am I missing something here? If one wants to have dynamic pages and uses PHP, then *some* DB has to be available, correct? Todd -- Todd Cary Ariste Software 2200 D Street Extension Petaluma, CA 94952 707-773-4523 todd@aristesoftware.comA DB isn't required for a dynamic site, but it certainly makes things easier. But a database does not have to be installed on the server for you to make use of a database. Since the mysql support is built-in, you can make use of the mysql_connect,mysql_query,etc... functions to connect to an external database.