XLII. Unified ODBC functions
In addition to normal ODBC support, the Unified ODBC functions in
PHP allow you to access several databases that have borrowed the
semantics of the ODBC API to implement their own API. Instead of
maintaining multiple database drivers that were all nearly
identical, these drivers have been unified into a single set of
ODBC functions.
The following databases are supported by the Unified ODBC
functions: Adabas D, IBM DB2, iODBC, Solid, and Sybase SQL Anywhere.
Please see the Installation on Unix
Systems chapter for more information about configuring PHP
with these databases.
Note:
There is no ODBC involved when connecting to the above
databases. The functions that you use to speak natively to them
just happen to share the same names and syntax as the ODBC
functions.