ID: 39453 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: nick dot gorham at easysoft dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment:
This note is specific to the databases mentioned - Adabas D, IBM DB2, iODBC, Solid, and Sybase SQL Anywhere and whilst it says "enables you to use any ODBC-compliant drivers with your PHP applications" imo it doesn't imply that it is the only method. Feel free to submit a patch if you think you can reword it so it is clearer. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-22 09:30:45] nick dot gorham at easysoft dot com Maybe I am going mad then. If I look at the page to be found at http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.uodbc.php The third paragraph from the top contains the following " Note: There is no ODBC involved when connecting to the above databases. The functions that you use to speak natively to them just happen to share the same names and syntax as the ODBC functions. The exception to this is iODBC. Building PHP with iODBC support enables you to use any ODBC-compliant drivers with your PHP applications. iODBC is maintained by OpenLink Software. More information on iODBC, as well as a HOWTO, is available at www.iodbc.org." Its not a user contributed note, its in the body of the text. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-22 01:57:15] [EMAIL PROTECTED] We cannot find the note you are referring to. Maybe it was a user contributed note (and it was deleted). => Closed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-11-14 09:35:38] nick dot gorham at easysoft dot com I see the note on the top of the page here. http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.uodbc.php "we can't possible accommodate users who don't set permissions properly (and decide to rebuild PHP)." Ok, thats always your decision, but the problem I see in this case is its the note that was the reason the user "decided" to rebuild PHP, as it gave the indication that to do what he wanted to do, a rebuild was required replacing unixODBC with iODBC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-11-11 18:08:40] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which note do you mean? The note I see doesn't say the same thing you indicate, but I might be just missing it. Also, while your documentation problem may be justified, we can't possible accommodate users who don't set permissions properly (and decide to rebuild PHP). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-11-09 17:14:27] nick dot gorham at easysoft dot com Description: ------------ On the Unified ODBC doc page, there is a note at the top that indicates that iODBC is the way to use ODBC via PHP. The problem with this (IMHO), is that it seems to be suggesting that iODBC is the only way. Of course unixODBC is still supported in the build, and last time I looked that was what most linux distribs came with. I have just had a user, causing himeself all sorts of problems, as he decided he needed to rebuild his copy of PHP because it was supplied built with unixODBC, and he needed to change to iODBC. That wasn't his problem at all, it was actually a permissions problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39453&edit=1
