[CLUE-Tech] Why PHP rules!

[Brandon N]

Or maybe just use ODBC....
http://php.weblogs.com/odbc


--- 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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