what are some good external databases PHP can use?

[benjy]

ok what i wanna know is, is there any good EXTERNAL ( external being the key word, meaning it is an external file ) Databases that PHP can use and NOT have to have a hanlder installed onto your server??? ( NOT mysql )

[zingbats]

I think microsoft access databases can be used... I am not sure

[tsinka]

Hi,

AFAIK php can use access only through an ODBC provider. You would have to set up an ODBC driver on the server.

I think,

the only 'external' databases php supports are the dbm style databases like Berkeley DB (read http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dba.php on that topic).

But you can't access it with SQL statements (without an ODBC driver) just with the functions provided by php. But with the php functions you can access that databases directly (even DB2 files)

[alanzhao]

NOT mysql

What's your opinion?

I think you don't like the ODBC provider thing too, because there're not too external 😃