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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:18 -0800
To: AugSoft <listmaster@augsoft.com>,internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] --with-ODBCRouter (database networking)
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)
References: <Pine.OSX.4.58.0501070817150.1403@zrtnobbx.ybpny>

Just out of curiosity, how does ODBC Router differ from the other ODBC 
bridge solutions out there?
Also, you should probably also provide PHP 5 diffs.

Andi

At 09:02 AM 1/7/2005 -0800, AugSoft wrote:

>Hi,
>
>+ This patch enables PHP's ODBC extension on
>certain non-Windows platforms (Linux, Mac OS X,
>etc.) to transparently interact with any of the
>data sources listed in the SystemDSN property-tab
>of the "Data Sources (ODBC) Control Panel" on a
>networked Windows NT4/2K/XP box running our ODBC
>Router.  Once installed, the PHP scripts will
>appear to be fully-supported Windows applications
>to virtually any data source while the data
>sources themselves, which may be on mainframe,
>mini, *NIX, Mac or Windows, will appear to be
>local to the PHP script.  All database
>communication takes place transparently, via
>high-performance binary TCP/IP connections (not
>XML, TELNET, etc.) This technology was introduced
>in 1995 and the product system is in use by
>FORTUNE 500 companies and at sites across Asia,
>Canada, Europe, Oceania and the US.
>
>+ Once applied, support for ODBCRouter may be
>compiled into PHP 4.3 by simply adding
>"--with-ODBCRouter" to the configure command.
>The only pre-compile-time configuration required
>is to install our free runtime library.  The only
>post-compile configuration required is to specify
>the IP address of the PC running ODBC Router in
>/etc/odbcrouter.conf (at which point, all DSNs on
>that PC may be referenced from within local PHP
>scripts).
>
>+ Currently, ODBC Router users with PHP 4.3.10
>on Linux-X86 follow these procedures:
>
># rpm -ivh http://odbcrouter.com/m/linux-x86
># rpm -qi iodbc.net              (instructions)
>
>+ However, attached to this message are two patch
>files, one for the current 4.3.10 release (also
>distributed in the above RPM) and one for the
>current cvs release (as of the date of this
>message) for incorporation into the main-line code
>base.
>
>+ ODBC Router client components, such as the
>iodbc.net runtime library for Linux, are freely
>distributable. Interested parties may also
>download evaluation ODBC Router servers from
>  http://odbcrouter.com/downloadns.shtml
>
>+ Official PHP developers and the first 100
>significant code contributors may receive a
>complimentary (no charge) ODBC Router server for
>their NT4/2K/XP box by e-mailing us with enough
>info for us to confirm their actual project
>participation.
>
>Very Kind Regards,
>August Software
>
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