Re: ASP Book

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>Only have to use ODBC because of m$
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Well, this is playing games with terminology. With PHP, you still have to 
set up a database connection so PHP knows how to connect to the database.

In any three-tier development project, the middle tier still has to know how 
to connect to the datastore wherever it may be and whoever it may be.

That's pretty much essential with any multiuser database, and it's clearly 
true for web-based databases which follow the three-tier model.

So, no, it's not ODBC, but it is generally the same type of action. The 
implied assertion that PHP doesn't need a database connection while 
Microsoft does is misleading. Whether it's ODBC or not, if you have a 
multiuser database, you have to have a connection setting.

Here's the link to setting up a PHP database connection:

http://www.php.net/manual/configuration.php3

PHP may be good, but don't give it attributes it does not possess.


Eric Anderson





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