I guess I shouldn't have responded to this directly after waking up.
ODBC-JDBC Sounds like a feasible solution.  I'm going to give it a try.

Thanks much.

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:21:45 -0600
Dan Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, and thank you.  My understanding was that I still needed the DB2
> stuff behind odbc. Was I mistaken? I know jdbc works well,  but I
> haven't been able to get my odbc_connect to succeed. Can anyone
> please help me find the proper odbc connection syntax and backend to
> connect to a Derby network server from PHP?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Sylvain Leroux <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >Hi Dan,
> >
> >
> >I don't know if Derby is still compatible with DB2-CLI.
> >
> >Anyway, if it is no longer the case, as an alternative you may use
> >an ODBC-JDBC gateway. Since PHP has support for ODBC, this should
> >work.
> >
> >
> >Please, keep us up to date!
> >Sylvain.
> >
> >
> >Dan Farrell a écrit :
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> i would like to connect to a Derby DB With PHP.  It seems that to
> >> do so I will need the ibm db2 module for PHP.  To build that, in
> >> turn,  I will need db2 header and library files.  But for the life
> >> of me, I can't find a suitable download for these files anywhere.
> >> Many of the links seem to have vanished from IBM's site, but there
> >> are no such links at the Apache Derby site either, from what I can
> >> tell.  
> >> 
> >> Can anyone help me figure out where I can obtain IBM's Client
> >> Driver package so that I can build the db2 module for PHP and
> >> connect to my Derby Database?  
> >> 
> >> Or is there some better solution that doesn't require IBM
> >> libraries? 
> >> 
> >> Thank you very much, I'm stumbling in the dark.  
> >> 
> >> Sincerely, 
> >> 
> >>    Dan Farrell
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >
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> >

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