On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Chris wrote:

> >Is it really necessary to use PHP and ODBC? PHP has a native postgresql
> >interface I believe...
>
> It sounds like the postgres server is a different machine to the web
> server, so ODBC is needed to communicate between the 2..

No it isn't.  Postgres should be accessible via PHP whether it's on the
same server or on a remote server (and Postgres is configured to allow
remote access).  The only reason I can guess as to why ODBC is being used
is to perhaps maintain code compatibility with the use of a different
databse platform that the web server may have been using previously.

-- Brett

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