Are there PHP database plug-ins for Rdb and MySQL on VMS?

From: Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr (winston_at_SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU)
Date: 07/26/03 

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:38:10 GMT

VMSers --

For two different projects, I have a need for PHP database plugins to
communicate with Rdb and with MySQL, with the databases hosted on the
VMS server.

I have a budget of zero, and I know a lot more about Perl than I do about PHP.

A quick google search turned up discussion about using the ODBC PHP plugin to
talk to Rdb databases, but that won't work for Rdb running on the same machine;
the ODBC driver for Rdb is a Windows-only front-end to SQL/Services, so in a
VMS-only solution there's nothing speaking ODBC.

(I'm aware that this problem could be solved with Attunity or Connx, but see
the part above about a budget of zero.)

There is a Perl-based ODBC server which can use DBD:: plugins to talk to the
actual databases, so I suppose it's theoretically possible to use the PHP
ODBC plug-in to talk to the Perl ODBC server which talks to the database,
assuming that the PHP ODBC plug-in exists on VMS, but this seems unlikely to
perform well and to be extremely painful to debug.

-- Alan 

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