U2 PDO Driver parts 1 and 2
p. ! bq. The PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension provides a lightweight, convenient means for accessing databases in PHP. However, you must use a database-specific PDO driver to access a database server. Currently there is no PDO driver for the IBM’s U2 data servers, Uni Data and UniVerse. p. “Part One”:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0612xia/ teaches you how to write a PDO driver for U2 using the U2 native interface, InterCall. In “Part Two”:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0701xia/index.html?ca=drs- you learn how to put the driver you’ve created to use in a PHP application. p. Now I’ll be the first to admit that writing a PDO driver in C for a database is not something most developers normally do. However, the article is still interesting and gives a glimps into an area of PHP that most of us take for granted. (The code beneath our code) p. =C=
