NYCPHP Meetup

[Daniel Krook]

> Is there anyone here who's ever built a site using PHP with Universe/DB2 
on
> the backend instead of, say, MySQL?

Nothing large, but it's a direction we're going in for a few internal web 
applications. 

>From an administration point of view, it's fairly simple to add DB2 
support to PHP.  Just add the following flag to your PHP configure after 
you've installed DB2 on the server:

--with-ibm-db2 [assuming the default location, /home/db2inst1/sqllib]

Then add this to apachectl or the profile of the user who starts Apache or 
which ever web server you're planning to use:

. /home/db2inst1/sqllib/db2profile

>From an application standpoint, use PEAR DB and look out for the issues 
that Dan Convissor points out.






Daniel Krook, Advisory IT Specialist - Application Development
WW Web Production Services North 2, ibm.com
1133 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604

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