Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11464 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 57718 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Jul 2004 13:40:01 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 57659 invoked by uid 1007); 22 Jul 2004 13:40:01 -0000 Message-ID: <20040722133959.57622.qmail@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <20040722111742.253.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <72756627-DBDC-11D8-86DF-000D93359332@omniti.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:39:58 +0800 Lines: 16 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Posted-By: 219.95.248.163 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Calling PHP functions from an extension From: jlim@natsoft.com.my ("John Lim") Hi George, 2 reasons. High learning curve to learn all client API's. Secondly because of linking issues with the client. E.g. oracle might not be installed on the server. John > > If performance is your concern, why not simply call the various RDBMS > API functions directly? > > George