Success -- MySQL / MyODBC replication

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, michael d hoskins wrote:

> Because of free ODBC, JDBC, and Perl DBI/DBD support, you can develop
> for both databases simultaneously, as long as you don't use native
> API's.  Unfortunately, PHP doesn't have this kind of support, unless
> you download someone else's library, such as PHPLib, the PHP Base
> Library: http://phplib.netuse.de/index.php3 In most of these, you just
> switch out a line or two of code, and maybe a driver.  This way, you
> don't paint yourself into a corner.

PHP has full support for ODBC.  Use it to abstract your database backends.

J.

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