March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
21h 29m
English
Content preview from Programming PHPBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Name
ODBC
Synopsis
The ODBC extension allows you to access databases that support ODBC. In addition, the extension supports connecting to several other databases that have adopted the semantics of ODBC.
To use ODBC, you must install the client libraries appropriate to the
database you’re trying to access and compile PHP
with one of the following directives:
--with-unixodbc[
=DIR
]
for the Unix ODBC library,
--with-openlink[
=DIR
]
for OpenLink ODBC support,
--with-dbmaker[
=DIR
]
for DBMaker support,
--with-adabas[
=DIR
]
for Adabas D support,
--with-sapdb[
=DIR
]
for SAP DB support,
--with-solid[
=DIR
]
for Solid support,
--with-ibm-db2[
=DIR
]
for IBM DB2 support,
--with-empress[
=DIR
]
for Empress support,
--with-velocis[
=DIR
]
for Velocis support,
--with-custom-odbc[
=DIR
]
for custom ODBC-driver support,
--with-iodbc[
=DIR
]
for iODBC support, or
--with-esoob[
=DIR
]
for Easysoft OOB support.