On 03/08/2011 10:03 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote:
> Hi all,
> Most of the time i am seeing and i have heard people saying " php & mysql ".
> What is the reason for these two always said to be a pair, even-though odbc
> can be used?

This is the combination that is part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and
PHP) that resulted in Linux and Free software being deployed in edge
servers in the early days.  They have a long history of coordinated
development and work well together.    PHP's support for other databases
have historically been much weaker. 

Rahul

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