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 http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired. But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired. -- Rita Gain ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]