[CLUE-Tech] Why PHP rules!

[Brandon N]

While not ODBC, I did find a set of scripts somewhere that supported
many different type of databases, basically you coded to thier API and
then in thier file, include mysql.php or oracle.php or access.php,
whichever one you wanted, so you can change DB's without changing the
interface, I'll see if I can find the link again (phplib supports quite
a few databases as well, but most of the stuff in there is outdated for
php4)

Brandon
--- Grant Johnson <Grant.Johnson at MetroIS.com> wrote:
> Well, I have been developing at work in ASP and at home in PHP
> generally 
> PHP was the better of the 2, but it lacked one feature.  ASP had
> session 
> variables.  Basically, a cookie, just good until the browser closed
> with an 
> ID number was placed on the client, then a bunch of good info could
> be 
> stored locally, and you could reference it, without ever needing to
> deal 
> with the cookie, and never having to do the lookup yourself.  The
> newest 
> version of PHP, 4, includes session variables.  I tried them out for
> the 
> first time today.  Not only are they fully functional, the
> implementation 
> is much better than ASP's.  You simply declare which variables are to
> be 
> saved.  That is it, no trying to use associative arrays that work,
> but 
> could return one of many results because they work on a search list
> that 
> has other associative arrays in it, no recoding to use this, no need
> to 
> specially set them, just tell it which ones to keep!
> 
> Now, there is one thing left, that MS has actually done well.  ODBC, 
> although limited is a good idea.  Give one way to talk to databases
> that 
> covers the basics, and write drivers to do this with any database. 
> There 
> is a UNIX ODBC, but I have not seen much support for this.  PERL does
> this 
> well, with DBI, but a general purpose one would be best.  Does anyone
> know 
> of anything?   It would be nice to do development with one database,
> and 
> then switch if needed.
> 
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