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[PHP-DB] Re: Informix IDS2000 and Zope/Python/Perl/PHP on Linux From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos <email protected>)
Date: 07/29/01

Hello,

Thomas Volkmar Worm wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I am consindering to use Informix Dynamic Server (Informix Internet
> Foundation 2000/Linux) together with Zope and the other 3 P's.
>
> I wonder, whether somebody has any experience with Linux and
>
> - IDS 2000 and Perl
> or
> - IDS 2000 and PHP
> or
> - IDS 2000 and Python
> or
> - IDS 2000 and Zope
>
> and can tell me about the experience he made with one or more of these
> combinations. I am interested to hear about
>
> - availibility of the needed drivers
> - their (practical) compatibility to (eg. perl DBI, python DB-API 2.0,
> etc.)
> - stability
> - and what else someone has experienced
>
> I already was an php.net, python.org, perl.org, zope.org - I guess I
> know whats available. It looks to me as if the support for IDS is not so
> strong, so I am really interested in real experience somebody had rather
> that what you can read in the READMEs. If you stopped using IDS together
> with P..., please tell me why and what db (other than mySQL, thats
> allready running here) are you using instead.

For PHP you may want try Metabase which is a database abstraction layer
that lets you develop portable database applications. It supports
Informix and I have tested it all right with IDS 2000 on Linux.

You may want to look for it in here:

http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20

Manuel Lemos 

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