Nathan wrote:
Matthew Tedder wrote:
Ok..
Maybe I am seeing how it works now. I am not used to ODBC (usually, mysql,
postgresql, or mssql) and saw various examples under google searches
explicitly stating the database driver with such as "driver=..." in the odbc
connect statements.
Hi Matthew,
One PHP Dev to another, you can use the odbc functions:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.uodbc.php
or you can use PDO with the ODBC drivers
http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-odbc.php
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) can be used to connect to any
database, not just Virtuoso - you can connect to MySQL through ODBC,
Postgres through ODBC, and afaik virtually every other database out there.
Noted you've got a nice reply from Kingsley who's nailed all the facts,
and honestly he's right - ODBC is a standardized API for DBMS solutions,
if we all used ODBC rather than client specific connectors we'd have
vendor portability and wouldn't need those 'clever' abstraction layers
like PDO.
One additional comment. Nothing stops PDO sitting atop ODBC.
This page shows how pathetic things have become re. Open Data Access
comprehension: http://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.drivers.php :-(
Kingsley
Best & Good luck,
Nathan
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