Re: database

Alex, I tried to install pear with apt-get but it repliedthat it couldn't find
the package.
apt-get install pear
Should I have installed something else?

On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:19, Earl, Alex C wrote:> > > am I correct in
assuming that you need Apache to be running to work
>
> with
>
> > > MySQL?
> >
> > No. MySQL is completely independent.
> >
> > There is a very large and still fast growing field of development,
>
> LAMP:
> > Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. http://www.onlamp.com/ The tools work
>
> very
>
> > well together, and will for a very long time since development of all
> > these is geared toward working together AND working with as many other
> > protocols as possible. For instance, I worked on a project that
>
> included
>
> > a DB2 database, which PHP could interface through an ODBC driver
>
> provided
>
> > by IBM. So it was a part LAMP and part LA[db2]P website. Since this
>
> is
>
> > Linux goodness, you can also write cron jobs that run php on the
>
> command
>
> > line, e-mail users, automatically submit e-mails into a MySQL table,
> > whatever.
> >
> > I also highly recommend http://safari.oreilly.com/ .
> >
> > --Alexander
>
> I personally recommend PostgreSQL over MySQL as well, I failed to
> mention this earlier. I would also recommend using something like PEAR
> to abstract the accesses to the database so that you can plug different
> database servers into the back of your scripts.
>
> Alex
>
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