Re: Discussion Board software

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:20:23 -0700 (PDT), walker.l2 wrote:
In PHP you can consider those two platform
vbullettin and phpBB - had a chance to make both run on iSeries, but the db was
outside on a separate server (well at least a decent pc, to run only mysql you
don't need much more).

You don't have to use MySQL with PHP any more, PHP can now connect to
DB2 on the AS/400.

It depends on how the PHP application was written. There's several
database-dependant sets of APIs, and a wrapper called PHP Data Objects
(PDO) that CAN be used to write fairly portable code for fairly simple
database operations, IF the PDO code is written to be portable. (It's
perfectly possible to write a PDO-based program that ends up being
database-dependant by mistake.) And, as usual with such things for the
i5, the system running PHP/PDO must be built against an appropriate
version of DB2 Client v9.1 or later and an appropriate version of DB2
Connect. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-ibm.php has many of the
details.

--
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases
to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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