[ale] php and unixODBC

Gary MacKay gary at edisoninfo.com
Thu Jul 25 15:02:41 EDT 2002


I'd love to, but I can't get that working with apache and php either. 
This was my last resort!

- Gary


Geoffrey wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> 



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