[PHP-DEV] DB2 Documentatin (Unified ODBC Drivers) From: Daniel Beckham (danbeck <email protected>)
Date: 08/15/00

I noticed that there isn't any documentation for the database servers
supported by the unified ODBC drivers. Actually, the only real mention in
the manual that php even supports DB2 is the "What can PHP do?"
section. It just lists it as one of the database's supported.

Is there anyone here who is familiar with the DB2 support? I just added
some information to the installation section of the manual, but there
really isn't any documentation that explains how to use it. I believe that
I can add some useful information for this, but I'm not sure how it should
actually be added. Personally, I think here should be aliases from the
odbc_* functions to db2_ functions.. but I'm on the doc list.. not dev list...

Should there be a actual db2 (and other supported databases) section that
explains some details about how db2 is supported and then links over to the
odbc section? Should there just be a unified odbc driver section that
explains each database that uses the driver?

I really think that there should be *something* in the manual about these
databases.. a search on www.php.net for "ibm db2" turns up 7 results.. and
a search for "db2" turns up 13.. none of which have any real useful
information in them... Currently, the only place to find any information
is old mailing list archives.

Any thoughts on this? How about you guys on the dev team that read this
list? How about having aliased functions so that we can actually have a
full doc section for each of these databases?

Daniel 

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