Re: Dreamweaver

check out the libraries:

<metabase>
<adodb>

Nikola Milutinovic wrote:

>>This may have been better posted in the advocacy list but I am not a
>>subscriber.
>>
>>We recently purchased Dreamweaver MX and I was a little surprised to
>>find that one of its pre-defined scripting systems is PHP + MySQL. I
>>haven't done much exploring of what is actually offered but wondered
>>whether any one had tried to convince Macromedia to provide a PHP +
>>PostgreSQL or at least a PHP + anydb.
>
>
> PHP has a shortcoming of NOT having a unified interface to "any" DB. MySQL
> uses one set of function calls, while PgSQL another. Yes, of course they
> could add support for another (very popular) DB. But I'd rather feel out
> their support for JSP/JDBC, which should be in :-)
>
>
>>If the support for MySQL is in the form of an Extension, is there a
>>PostgreSQL equivalent as I have been contacted by one of our clients who
>>has said, "Do we povide MySQL ?", we dont. "Oh! I am teaching myself PHP
>>+ MySQL using Dreamweaver and I wanted you to host the site" :-(
>
>
> The only unified interface offered by PHP, that I know of, is ODBC. I know
> there are build options to fuse some Java support in, but that is, IMHO, a
> waste of time and effort - not to mention resources.
>
> Nix.
>
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