[plug] PostgreSQL and PHP

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Nov 29 08:07:47 WST 2001


On Wednesday 28 November 2001 17:16, Arkem wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a module or library available to allow
> you to access PostgreSQL from PHP while not using the cgi version?
> I've found the library to allow the cgi version of php to use
> PostgreSQL but not one for apache. If there isn't one I'll probably
> have to use MySQL instead.

php-pgsql works fine both embedded and CGI; it ships with Mandrake and 
RedHat, and presumably SuSE, Caldera etc. I run a dynamic DNS (you do need to 
recompile BIND with a better pgsql driver than it ships with) on it. What 
distribution are you using?

Cheers; Leon



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