Nikola Milutinovic wrote:
> > This may have been better posted in the advocacy list but I am not a
> > subscriber.
> >
> > We recently purchased Dreamweaver MX and I was a little surprised to
> > find that one of its pre-defined scripting systems is PHP + MySQL. I
> > haven't done much exploring of what is actually offered but wondered
> > whether any one had tried to convince Macromedia to provide a PHP +
> > PostgreSQL or at least a PHP + anydb.
>
> PHP has a shortcoming of NOT having a unified interface to "any" DB. MySQL
> uses one set of function calls, while PgSQL another. Yes, of course they
> could add support for another (very popular) DB. But I'd rather feel out
> their support for JSP/JDBC, which should be in :-)
Sounds like PHP needs something similar to DBD for Perl.
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