Re: PDO and PHP questions

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.
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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