Re: PDO and PHP questions

[Mike Pavlak <mike.p@xxxxxxxx>]

Yep,  we've heard from a lot of you that PDO is interesting.  So some of us are looking into what it would take to make it better like alleviating the CC constraints, etc.  

More soon or right after ZendCon announcement.

Mike Pavlak
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-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Lavinder
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 1:01 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] PDO and PHP questions

One thing people should know about PDO_IBM before getting in too deep: it can and does have issues with tables that do not have commitment control enabled.  I opened a support request over the issue and, after some back and forth, was told was that PDO requires commitment control.  Period.  The answer never sit well with me, but since the native ibm_db2 extension works without issue, I have stuck with it.


On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. < mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is an interesting link comparing PDO and MySQLi. You could 
> probably make the same comparison between PDO and IBM_DB2. Note that 
> both the IBM
> DB2 extension and PDO IBM need a native client installed, and for 
> IBMi, that client is DB2 Connect. I don't know if you can use PDO_ODBC 
> with IBMi, there is an ibm-db2 flavor, but it only claims to support 
> DB2 LUW. The normal ODBC database extension works fine against DB2 for i though.
>
> Mark Murphy
> STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Vicki Wilson <victwyh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
> To: "web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Vicki Wilson <victwyh@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 09/08/2016 08:47PM
> Subject: [WEB400] PDO and PHP questions
>
>
> Hi all,
> We have some new templates available to us that include PDO.  We are 
> new to PHP.  And even the folks with PHP experience do not have PDO experience.
> We are running PHP on the ibmi and mostly connecting to DB2 on the ibmi.
> I found the library list issue and addressed it via:
> PDO::I5_ATTR_DBC_SYS_NAMING => true
> If you use PDO do you have other options you typically set when 
> connection to DB2 on the ibmi?
> Does anyone have any thoughts on pros/cons of using PDO?
> Also the naming of this option i5_ makes me think it's using the old 
> toolkit?  Does PDO use the old toolkit?  Does it matter?
> Thanks. Vicki Wilson
>
>
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