[ale] Fwd: Re: [ale] php and unixODBC

[Jonathan Glass]

>To: Fulton Green <ale at FultonGreen.com>
>Cc: Taylor Robison <trobis at speakeasy.net>, ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] php and unixODBC
>
>Well, I'll probably get slammed on this one, but I'm all for learning 
>something new.  As I recall, ODBC originated in the Windows world?  Why do 
>odbc when you can do the native db connectivity with perl dbi/dbd?
>
>Fulton Green wrote:
>>Admittedly, I'm speaking WAAAAY outta my league, but ...
>>... isn't the whole purpose of unixODBC to abstract away most of the vendor-
>>specific details of database interaction?

Supposedly you have to download the PHP-SYBASE packages from sybase, and I 
believe they are specific to the version of the back-end you are 
running.  Then you are supposed to follow their instructions, and hope for 
the best.  The process involves installing Sybase on your local machine, 
then installing the drivers (PHP/SYBASE), then configuring the drivers for 
your local databse server, then finally redirecting those config files to 
your other database server.

Having tried to get this to work for about a year (and failing miserably), 
I'd recommend finding another route.  I finally loaded PHP and Sybase ODBC 
on an Win2K box and referred to those pages when I needed Sybase info.


Jonathan Glass, RHCE, Linux+, Network+, A+, MCP
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience/BME
Georgia Institute of Technology
Voice: 404-385-0127
E-mail: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu


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