RE: ODBTP (Best solution for MSSQL & Win32 ODBC) at SourceForge

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Dude,

Did you send this stuff to the guys at ZEND?
If it is as good as you claim, why not integrate it into PHP 5?
This way PHP gets better and you get acclaim.

:)

Luke Woollard





-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Twitty [mailto:rtwitty@neutron.ushmm.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:59 AM
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject:  ODBTP (Best solution for MSSQL & Win32 ODBC) at
SourceForge


The first version of ODBTP (Open Database Transport Protocol) is now
available at http://odbtp.sourceforge.net.

ODBTP is a solution to connecting to MS-SQL 7.0/2000 and other Win32 ODBC
accessible databases from UNIX or Linux.

The statement "Best solution..." is not just a blanket opinion on my part.
I did not create ODBTP because I had nothing else better to do.  I created
it because the extensions included with PHP for connecting to MS-SQL were
inadequate.  Neither the odbc nor the mssql extensions can properly read
nvarchar and ntext fields.  In fact, the mssql extension breaks if you
try to read a ntext field.  Handling of datetime data was also not
satisfactory. Parameterized queries were not possible with the odbc
extension, and was only supported for stored procedures by the mssql
extension if used with Win32-based PHP.  And while the odbc and mssql
extensions were ok on Win32, they caused too many problems for me when
used on a UNIX platform.

Because I preferred to use PHP instead of ASP or JSP for web
application development,  I created ODBTP to solve all of the problems
inherent in PHP when connecting to MS-SQL databases.

ODBTP has been in use successfully at my place of employment for about 6
months, and I felt that it was good idea to make it available to other
people who also have a need to connect to MS-SQL from PHP.

The URL http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en points to a site that uses ODBTP to
dynamically generate its pages.

-- bob


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