ODBC extension for PHP?

[Lone Shepherd]

As far as I can tell, ODBC isn't installed for PHP. I see that PDO is, which is good.

Is there a specific reason ODBC is not installed?

[AndrewT]

Correct. ODBC support is not available. I believe you're the first of our customers to have even expressed interest in PHP's support of this. It just isn't very popular.

[Lone Shepherd]

Thanks Andrew. In the past I've used perl for interacting with sql databases, and am just now researching what's available for php. So I'm not really sure about the popularity, advantages, disadvantages of the various options.

PDO seems like it will work just fine, though.

[ZYV]

ODBC is mostly used as a common interface for SQL-like data sources for which there's no native PDO bindings provided. So the fact is that you just don't need it at all. Use mySQL PDO bindings instead.