Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:27:16 -0700 From: "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicdms.com> To: Dan Mahoney <dan@ns1.wolf.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache and databases Message-ID: <19980903022717.23505.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> In-Reply-To: <19980902174401.13682@ns1.wolf.com> References: <19980903003242.22529.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com>; from Dave Walton on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 05:32:42PM -0700
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On 2 Sep 98, at 17:44, Dan Mahoney wrote: > I suspect it's just because I've never taken the time to figure > out how to do advanced database activities using PHP/FI, while > doing so in Perl is straightforward and usually pretty simple. > > I've had others tell me as well that it's a lot simpler to put > together a new app in PHP/FI than in Perl, but I seem to have > some difficulty getting my mind around the PHP/FI way of doing > things... As someone else pointed out, PHP/FI is just PHP now that version 3 is out. A *lot* has changed since it was PHP/FI. Anyway, PHP has built-in functions for connecting to and running queries on databases. Something like this, for example: $conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password); mysql_select_db($db_name, $conn); $result = mysql_query($sql, $conn); $array = mysql_fetch_row($result); I, on the other hand, seem to have difficulty getting my mind around DBI/DBD. :) Oh, and Apache/PHP/MySQL runs great on FreeBSD. (See, this is on topic!) Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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