Re: Dreamweaver

On Saturday 16 August 2003 18:24, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Nikola Milutinovic wrote:
> > > This may have been better posted in the advocacy list but I am not a
> > > subscriber.
> > >
> > > We recently purchased Dreamweaver MX and I was a little surprised to
> > > find that one of its pre-defined scripting systems is PHP + MySQL. I
> > > haven't done much exploring of what is actually offered but wondered
> > > whether any one had tried to convince Macromedia to provide a PHP +
> > > PostgreSQL or at least a PHP + anydb.
> >
> > PHP has a shortcoming of NOT having a unified interface to "any" DB.
> > MySQL uses one set of function calls, while PgSQL another. Yes, of course
> > they could add support for another (very popular) DB. But I'd rather feel
> > out their support for JSP/JDBC, which should be in :-)
>
> Sounds like PHP needs something similar to DBD for Perl.

There are several libraries such as PEAR::DB and ADODB
(http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB) available, although none
has achieved similar universality to Perl's DBI.

Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net