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Does anyone know where I can find a list of supported databases? Please

Sep 19th, 2002 08:12
Philip Olson, markus dinter, Tyrone Murphy, http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB

The following lists all the supported databases.  Also note that most 
likely people are working on others, Open Source is great that way :)
  http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro-whatcando.php
  Adabas D   Ingres        Oracle (OCI7 and OCI8) 
  dBase      InterBase     Ovrimos 
  Empress    FrontBase     PostgreSQL 
  FilePro    mSQL          Solid 
  Hyperwave  Direct MS-SQL Sybase 
  IBM DB2    MySQL         Velocis 
  Informix   ODBC          Unix dbm
PHP has an API for each.  For example, MySQL functions can be 
read about here:
  http://www.php.net/mysql 
On a related note, you may consider a DB abstraction layer.  PEAR comes 
with one:
  http://pear.php.net/
  http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8943/fid/707