According to the ZEND Developer Zone, http://devzone.zend.com/ PHP support for Informix has been moved to the PECL, the PHP Extension Community Library.
http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1621#Heading11
“In other CVS news, Tony moved ext/informix out of the core in PHP_5_2 branch and CVS HEAD. The extension now resides in PECL CVS, but has no maintainer at the time of writing. The actively maintained pecl/pdo_informix extension should be used in new code.”
So what does the mean… I don’t know the exact details other than to build a PHP environment for Informix support requires more work effort. Out of box, ( gzip download), PHP has support for a number of database platforms. Of course, the Open Source DB’s, Msql and PostgreSQL are supported along with some of the ones that cost a few $$’s like Oracle and DB2. I also found it interesting that Adabase and SAP DB is supported but Informix was dropped. With the latest release of Informix 11 the administration tool is OpenAdmin Tool which is developed in PHP. This, I believe, is a great direction, but to try and build the PHP environment, in a Solaris environment, to support the tool can be challenging.
With Oracle the configuration is as ease as downloading the instant client software supplied by Oracle then running the configure script with the switch, --with-oci8=, run make and make install.
http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1621#Heading11
“In other CVS news, Tony moved ext/informix out of the core in PHP_5_2 branch and CVS HEAD. The extension now resides in PECL CVS, but has no maintainer at the time of writing. The actively maintained pecl/pdo_informix extension should be used in new code.”
So what does the mean… I don’t know the exact details other than to build a PHP environment for Informix support requires more work effort. Out of box, ( gzip download), PHP has support for a number of database platforms. Of course, the Open Source DB’s, Msql and PostgreSQL are supported along with some of the ones that cost a few $$’s like Oracle and DB2. I also found it interesting that Adabase and SAP DB is supported but Informix was dropped. With the latest release of Informix 11 the administration tool is OpenAdmin Tool which is developed in PHP. This, I believe, is a great direction, but to try and build the PHP environment, in a Solaris environment, to support the tool can be challenging.
With Oracle the configuration is as ease as downloading the instant client software supplied by Oracle then running the configure script with the switch, --with-oci8=
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