Glen Eustace wrote:
>>>PHP has a shortcoming of NOT having a unified interface to "any" DB.
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> MySQL
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>>>uses one set of function calls, while PgSQL another. Yes, of course
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> they
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>>>could add support for another (very popular) DB. But I'd rather feel
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> out
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>>>their support for JSP/JDBC, which should be in :-)
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>>Sounds like PHP needs something similar to DBD for Perl.
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>
> It actually does. The PEAR DB Support stuff isn't too bad. I have used
> it several times when I wasn't sure which database was going to be used.
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> I suppose in addition to asking my question, was the unasked one. If
> PostgreSQL is to gain broader appeal, then developers like Macromedia
> need to be conviced to either make their products 'database neutral' by
> providing a generic hook or providing more than one of the popular
> alternatives. As it is, there are a bunch of web designers using DW
> that go straight for a PHP+MySQL solution because that is what DW
> supports :-( PostgreSQL doesn't even get a look in.
>
> Glen
Dreamweaver can interface with various DBs using PEAR, ADOdb, dbx functions.
I do most of my development using dreamweaver and the free extenstion -
to dreamweaver - PHAkt - from interakt
http://www.interakt.ro/products/PHAkt/index.php
It supports multiple databases including my favorite - PostgreSQL -
using ADOdb.
Tim.
