2009/4/20 Andi Gutmans <andi@xxxxxxxx>: > Btw, in Zend Framework while we based our adapter interface on PDO we allow for adapters which are not based on PDO (via quackable interfaces). > DB2, Oracle and MySQLi are supported in that way as well as of course many PDO drivers. > You can easily take one of those native DB adapters and make them work with the sql server for PHP driver. > Andi > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Sceppa [mailto:David.Sceppa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:18 PM >> To: Richard Quadling >> Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; php-windows- >> internals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: RE: Which ORM tool for Windows with Microsoft SQL >> Server 7/2000/2005. >> >> Richard, >> >> As pointed out on other branches of the thread, PDO_ODBC is currently >> your best option for accessing SQL Server via PDO and technologies that >> rely on PDO. We are investigating producing a PDO driver for SQL >> Server Driver going forward. >> >> David Sceppa >> Program Manager - Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Quadling [mailto:rquadling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:38 AM >> To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; php-windows- >> internals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Which ORM tool for Windows with Microsoft SQL Server >> 7/2000/2005. >> >> Hi. >> >> I'm trying to find an ORM tool to allow me to talk to Microsoft SQL >> servers (V7, 2000 and 2005) for Windows. >> >> For those that use ORM, what do you use? >> >> I've looked at Doctrine (requires php_pdo_mssql which isn't part of >> the VC9 win32 builds; for the VC6 builds, it requires ntwdblib.dll >> which is oh so dead). >> >> I'm looking into Propel next. This now seems to be using PDO and >> PDO_MSSQL, so it seems I've got the same problems. >> >> Ideally, using the nice shiny Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP >> from Microsoft (http://www.codeplex.com/SQL2K5PHP) would be nice. But >> this isn't PDO. >> >> Is there anyone capable of getting the Microsoft driver PDO aware? >> >> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard Quadling. >> >> -- >> ----- >> Richard Quadling >> Zend Certified Engineer : >> http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 >> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" >> >> -- >> PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > Thank you all for your responses. I'm particularly encouraged to see the response from David @ Microsoft. My time for learning about using an ORM is limited, so I'm going to try out Outlet as this supports an "out of the box" experience (ahem). Regards, Richard. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
