No - PHP has it's own drivers, just like perl has it's own (DBI), and java
has it's own (JDBC). As for PHP's abstraction layer, PHP comes built with
one for dbm style db's (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dba.php), but not
for sql type db's. Several abstraction layer projects for sql db's have been
mentioned on the list - I have never used any of them - just the db-specific
API's. Try ADODB - there's a tutorial here:
http://php.weblogs.com/adodb_tutorial
J
on 3/17/01 1:10 PM, andrew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> actually, just wondering if PHP can use JDBC drivers to connect to
> databases. what is the 'abstracted db layer' that you mention?
>
> regards,
> andrew
>
>
> On 3/17/01 2:52 PM, "Julian Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you mean. You use a JDBC driver to connect your java
>> program to an sql db. PHP has an abstracted db layer which parallels the
>> function of JDBC for the php environment. PHP also has db-specific API's,
>> which tend to be somewhat faster and can take advantage of specific db
>> features. Does that help?
>>
>> J
>>
>> on 3/16/01 7:36 PM, andrew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On a related noted, does PHP have JDBC support?
>>>
>>> I'm unable to find anything about this - anyone know if it's possible?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> andrew
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Julian Wood
>> Learning Technologies and Digital Media
>> University of Calgary
>>
>>
>
>
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Learning Technologies and Digital Media
University of Calgary
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