Re: Disabling ODBC

For Access,MySql and many others DB try ADODB: http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB It will work with ODBC and ADO as well Alain Jason Gan wrote: > > Gonzalo Vera: > > The built-in ODBC functions in PHP work like the other PHP extensions. If > you don't use them, they won't be used. You don't have to remove ODBC > support from PHP. > Regarding Access and PHP: it is better to use COM to access the Access > database, although I've never tried to access an old Access 95 database and > I wouldn't. You should install MDAC 2.6 on your machine (Download from > Microsoft) to enable the new OLEDB Provider (Jet4.0) for Access. Then you > can access the Access database using OLEDB which is more reliable, and > allows you to do connectionless recordsets, as you should with Access > databases, due to their slow performance. > MySQL has much improved performance, however, you may find it difficult to > get it to work under Windows. It is possible to access MySQL using OLEDB as > well. (Refer to a Wrox manual called "Data Access".) > Use PHP's MySQL functions if they work... > > Note: do not use pconnect in your ODBC or MySQL function calls, if you are > running IIS. Pconnect will cause IIS to crash fatally (ODBC is not isolated > from IIS). If you run Apache (single-threaded server), you may be able to > use pconnect. > > Hope this helps rather than confuses you. > - Jason. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gonzalo Vera [mailto:gvz@eucalipto.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2001 4:56 AM > To: Cynic > Cc: PHP Windows > Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-WIN] Disabling ODBC > > ... Problems with ODBC and Access 95 ... > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net