Advanced Database Interaction in PHP4
If you have been playing with PHP for a while, you have most likely noticed its excellent support for connecting to MySQL databases. Most of the PHP books on the market describe PHP database support only with MySQL. But PHP supports many more databases with almost the same support it provides for MySQL. As of version 4.1, PHP supports the following databases in one form or another:
MySQL— www.mysql.com
mSQL— www.hughes.com.au
MS SQL (Microsoft SQL server; on Win32 systems only)
filePro (Read only)— www.fptech.com
Informix— (from IBM) www.informix.com
InterBase— www.interbase.com
Oracle— www.oracle.com
Ovrimos— www.ovrimos.com
Sybase— www.sybase.com
DB++—experimental— www.concept-asa.de
DBM— flat file databases available ...
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