[CLUE-Tech] Why PHP rules!

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ODBC? Isn't that MS only? I was not aware that you could
install on Linux.

I looked at the database calls for PHP awhile back. They
are different for each type of database; that sucks. Java
got it right with JDBC - just change the driver to talk to
a different database. However you might need to change your
SQL.

You might be able to install Openlink. Openlink replaced
all the Windoze drivers in OCBC with one client-side driver.
Of course you have to also buy a driver for each database
type, but this lives on the server.

Match.

Grant Johnson 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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