Ingres II and PHP

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Mashrur - 26 Oct 2004 16:29 GMT

Hi All,
I am in dark. I know very little about ingres. But I have got a
project ahead. There is an old Ingres II database in unixware 7.1.1,
and I need to access the database from a windows NT based web server.
I have options to choose the web server either IIS or Apache, but
there is no way to put the web server in the same machine with the
database. Roughly I am thinking PHP for back-end scripting. Could
anyone please tell me, how can I connect that database?
Thanks

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Emiliano Heyns - 26 Oct 2004 18:37 GMT

> Hi All,
> I am in dark. I know very little about ingres. But I have got a
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> database. Roughly I am thinking PHP for back-end scripting. Could
> anyone please tell me, how can I connect that database?

If you're going with IIS, go with ASP or ASP.Net. It's simply better
integrated. For apache, PHP is a decent choice, although I'm partial to
plone myself.

As for connecting from the windows machine, both ASP, PHP and Python can
do ODBC, and for Python a native interface exists. I don't know if it's
backwards compatible, but the beta1 for Windows of Ingres R3 includes a
.Net provider, which would allow you to connect using ASP.Net/C#.

Emile

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Mashrur - 28 Oct 2004 14:30 GMT

Thanks Emile.
But could you please suggest some odbc driver for ingresII ?
Is there any book or article on the internet on this topic
[php/asp-odbc-ingres]?

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Zdenko Rohac - 29 Oct 2004 08:17 GMT

Hello.
Install Ingres R3 client (opensource) on Webserver (windows NT),
ODBC driver is included and no additional software on database server
is required.
There is very good pdf documentation in R3 installation.
Regards
Zdenko Rohac.

Dňa Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:30:39 -0400, Mashrur <mashrur@tiscali.co.uk>
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> Thanks Emile.
> But could you please suggest some odbc driver for ingresII ?
> Is there any book or article on the internet on this topic
> [php/asp-odbc-ingres]?

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Emiliano Heyns - 29 Oct 2004 08:43 GMT

> Thanks Emile.
> But could you please suggest some odbc driver for ingresII ?
> Is there any book or article on the internet on this topic
> [php/asp-odbc-ingres]?

First hit on Google: http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/odbc.php

Emile

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