On Thu, March 1, 2007 5:44 am, Fernando Viadero wrote: > i have to take some data from a IBM universe database on a windows > server > from my linux+php web server.. > > does anybody know how to do this?? (i have googled a few hours and i > did > not find anything)... In database connections, you can usually "punt" and use ODBC. ODBC is generally slower and often has fewer features than a native connection [*]. But it almost always "works" on just about any database "out there", and you can get what you want for a simple application. * This statement almost always has that one ODBC guy on the list telling us how fast his ODBC implementation is and how it's better than all the rest, and that's in the archives, so save him the trouble and go find it. OT: Windows "native" database connections often aren't "native" at all, but are thinly-disguised wrappers to an "acquired" technology, and also often wrapped in successive generations of the "next big thing" in DB connectivity from Microsoft, so in ASP you might have something not unlike: ASP connect -> Ole connect -> Jet connnect -> ODBC connect -> [mumble] connect -> native connect Naturally, all of these function call wrappers add a little overhead, and a clean ODBC connection with no intervening "technologies" will be faster. YMMV -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
