[UPHPU] odbc and Informix

[Joseph Scott]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Nathan Lane wrote:

> I don't have any specific experience with Informix and ODBC, but I  
> do know
> that the O in ODBC stands for OLE, which is a microsoft protocol  
> allowing
> programs to connect to each other. If you could learn how toconnect  
> to OLE
> objects using PHP, then you would be on your way. You might be able  
> to watch
> connections from other clients to Informix to see what kind of  
> connection
> string you would need to pass to odbc_connect.



The O in ODBC stands for Open (as in Open Database Connectivity).  The  
ODBC page on Wikipedia mentions some of the implementations:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity



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