| From: | "Serguei Mokhov" <sa_mokho(at)alcor(dot)concordia(dot)ca> |
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| To: | "Brent R(dot) Matzelle" <bmatzelle(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Could be a FAQ: prepare/execute in PHP? |
| Date: | 2001-12-01 18:34:53 |
| Message-ID: | 06d901c17a98$54973d60$5dd9fea9@gunn |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brent R. Matzelle <bmatzelle(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:25 PM
> --- Kirk Strauser <kirk(at)nmotioninc(dot)com> wrote:
> > So, does anyone have any suggestions for how we can work around this, or how
> > other people have handled the situation, or even why the PostgreSQL API is
> > better or worse than the MySQL/Interbase API?
>
> You might do yourself a favor and do your code conversion with the
> PHPLIB (http://phplib.sourceforge.net/) database abstraction layer.
> It is very intuitive and easy to use and allows you to change between
> PG, MySQL, Oracle, etc with virtually no re-coding.
As of 4.0.6 PHP has a DBX extension, which is an equivalent to Perl's DBI
and does whatever you described above. We used it for a quite a while
on a production system without having any problems of any sort.
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