[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP-DEV] [CROSS POST] PHP Meetup Texas PHP Users

[Gabriel Ricard]

Jay Blanchard wrote:
 Howdy all!
 
 Just wanted to remind everyone that sign-up for the PHP Meetup is still in
 progress at http://php.meetup.com . At latest count there are 289 folks
 signed up world-wide with the top 10 cities being;
 
 Washington DC (9 members)
 Toronto (9 members)
 Leeds, UK (8 members)
 London, England (8 members)
 Amsterdam (7 members)
 Melbourne (6 members)
 Atlanta (5 members)
 Oakland-Alameda, CA (5 members)
 Manhattan (below 42nd St) (5 members)
 Montréal (4 members)
 
 Why do something like this? Meet other developers, networking (you can never
 tell when you're going to need another pair of hands for a project),
 networking (you can never tell when someone is going to need to hire extra
 hands for a project), and networking (you get the idea). Sign up soon! There
 are thousands of PHP folks out there, spread the word.
 

First of all, sorry for the additional cross post. MeetUp.com lacks the 
ability to let you contact other folks who have signed up. In my general 
area, Massachusetts, there are a bunch of tiny groups scattered about, 
and I'd like a chance to get all of them to converge in one place to 
make the meetup worth it for all of us. I know there's only a few days 
before the meetup is to take place, but if folks from the following 
areas could email me, then we can try and work out somewhere we can all 
meet, instead of there being 5 groups of 2 or 3 people.


Boston, Ma
Hyannis, Ma
North Boston Suburbs
Springfield, Ma
Manchester, NH

(heck, even people in RI and CT who don't mind driving)

Meetup.com cancels meetups for groups less than 5 also, so I'd like to 
see if we can just get one or two big groups.

Also, anyone else in this area... I've been looking for user groups in 
the Massachusetts area, and the only one that did exist, was PHPUG New 
England, which doesn't seem to exist anymore. Anyone interested in 
getting one going around here?


Again, sorry for the cross post.

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Gabriel Ricard
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Re: [PHP-DB] Moving from MySQL to MSSQL Server 2000

[Gabriel Ricard]

Sorry for the late reply to this, but if you were to move to MS SQL I'd 
highly recommend using FreeTDS (www.freetds.org) to access the database 
from PHP. Due to the lack of an MS SQL client library in Mac OS X I have 
to use FreeTDS to contact another MS SQL server ( I use MySQL myself ). 
Setup was very easy, you just build FreeTDS and then configure PHP using 
--with-sybase-ct=/path/to/freetds. Then you can use the mssql_* group of 
functions to access the database.

Or you could use ODBC... but I was never able to get that to work 
correctly, and the general consensus seems to be that ODBC is slow.

On Saturday, January 12, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Boaz Yahav wrote:

 Hi

 I'm planning to move my site (Very successful / high traffic Auctions
 site) from MySQL to MSSQL Server 2000.
 I was wondering if anyone has done this move and if there are any pit
 falls to notice.

 1. Is ODBC the only way to work from a Solaris / Apache / PHP 4 machine
 to a Win2K / SQL Server 2000?
 2. What could be the performance cost (if any).
 3. Are there any special points that need to be taken into consideration
 on either side?


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