From: Erik Price <eprice@ptc.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Advocacy (PostgreSQL) <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:29:34 -0400
Message-ID: <3EF7632E.9020704@ptc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15339.1056334760@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200306222159.h5MLxT720807@candle.pha.pa.us>
<15339.1056334760@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>We need to use this opportunity to encourage PHP folks to switch to
>>PostgreSQL.
>
>
> Indeed. What can we do exactly?
Write a migration tutorial and post it to the major web development
sites (webmonkey, sitepoint.com, devshed.com, phpbuilder.com, etc).
That's where PHP users are most-influenced. These tutorials have
enabled so many people to get into server-side scripting, and most of
the tutorials use MySQL. (I speak as a former full-time PHP programmer
who did use MySQL for PHP app development, because that's how I learned it.)
And, to avoid the connotation of bias, whomever writes such a migration
tutorial might want to suggest using the PEAR:DB abstraction layer to
avoid migration hassles in the future. http://pear.php.net/
Erik
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