Thanks for the shameless plug, I'll look into your code. However,
shouldn't something like what I want be possible in PHP with ODBC?
mweb
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 15:22:11 at 03:22:11PM -0800, Bill Adams wrote:
> mweb wrote:
>
> > >mweb,
> > > To make sure I understand you correctly, you want to create
> > >and
> > >test your PHP/MySQL database on your Linux/Apache box, then upload it
> > >to
> > >your ISP server that is running PHP/Access? I'm sorry but that's not
> > >going
> > >to work. You can't transparently switch a PHP application from MySQL
> > >to
> > >Access.
> >
> > Yes, you did understand me correctly.
> >
> > What I understand ( and could certainly be wrong) is that there are in
> > PHP layers of abstraction/wrappers/APIs or whatever you call them,
> > that allow you to do just that, i.e. to write code that is obviously
> > not as efficient as one written specifically for one single database,
> > but does work on more of them.
> >
> > As a matter of fact, after posting the first message, I bought the
> > book PHP developers cookbook which has section 16.0 named more or less
> > How to create a DB independent API with PHP, and that says "at the
> > beginning of the script is included a file containing all the wrapper
> > function....."
>
> <shameless plug>
> http://evilbill.org/php/DBI.php3
> I don't have an ODBC module for use under NT/Access but I would love a
> contribution.
> </shameless plug>
>
>
>
> > That's exactly what I was hoping to do. THe site has ~4000
> > accesses/month, and just some hundred records in the DB, so performance
> > is not really an issue here, is it?
>
> IMHO, no.
>
> b.
> mysql
>
>
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