Requirements
Requirements
Requirements
The Relational DAS requires that the SDO extension
be installed. The SDO extension requires a version of PHP 5.1, and
the Relational DAS requires a recent version that contains an
important fix for PDO. The most up-to-date information about
required levels of PHP should be found in the changelog for the
package on PECL. At the time of writing, though, the Relational DAS
requires the most recent beta level of PHP 5.1, that is PHP
5.1.0.
The Relational DAS uses PDO to access the
relational database, and so should run with a variety of different
relational databases. At the time of writing it has been tested in
the following configurations
-
MySQL 4.1.14, on Windows. The Relational DAS
operates correctly with the php_pdo_mysql driver that comes with
the pre-built binaries for PHP 5.1.0. -
MySQL 4.1.13, on Linux. It is necessary to have the
most up-to-date PDO driver for MySQL, which comes built in to PHP
5.1.0. It may be necessary to uninstall the usual driver that would
have come from PECL using pear uninstall
pdo_mysql. You will need to configure PHP with the
–with-pdo-mysql option. -
DB2 8.2 Personal Edition, on Windows. The
Relational DAS operates correctly with the php_pdo_odbc driver that
comes with the pre-built binaries for PHP 5.1.0. -
DB2 8.2 Personal Developer’s Edition, on Linux. The
Developer’s Edition is needed because it contains the include files
needed when PHP is configured and built. You will need to configure
PHP with the –with-pdo-odbc=ibm-db2 option.
The Relational DAS applies changes to the database
within a user-delimited transaction: that is, it issues a call to
PDO::beginTransaction() before beginning to
apply changes, and PDO::commit() or PDO::rollback() on completion. Whichever
database is chosen, the database and the PDO driver for the
database must support these calls.