PHP db support was Re: Dreamweaver

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 12:34, Ken Harris wrote:
> The closet thing PHP has is PEAR - it has the Dataobject concept and is as
> close to "neutral" as PHP gets. A long time ago, I wrote a "DB Neutral set of
> routines which works with Oracle, Postgresql and, untested, MySQL. That just
> seemed to be the easiest thing to do, but I have not tried to plug it into
> Dreamweaver.

PHP also has a module called dbx that allows you to do this as well. It
has some serious performance advantages over the PEAR library because it
is a module (written in C) rather than a bunch of PHP classes.

More on dbx here:

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.dbx.php

Cheers,

Chris

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