Re: Comparing databases

Robert Treat wrote:

>>>To be fair, postgresql is just starting to get to this
>>>point, where you'll see support for postgresql in a wide range of software.
>>>Heres an example, if I want to write php applications against firebird, who
>>>do I do it? I just took a swing through the php function list and I don't
>>>see anything that jumps out to me as firebird support. (fbsql turns out to be
>>>frontbase support) I looked at the dbx module, which proclaims to support
>>>frontbase, m$, mysql, odbc, postgresql, sybase, oracle, and sqlite. Where is
>>>firebird?
>>
>>I don't know much (anything) about PHP - but I do know that there are
>>Firebird users who use it.
>
> yes... i know there are people doing this as well, but I can't see how
> they do it unless they are using the generic odbc connection
> functions... odd.

It might be possible to use the "InterBase functions" for accesing
Firebird from PHP. I'm not sure, though.

Cheers,
Adrian Maier