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<div id="intro.uodbc" class="preface">

  <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>

  <p class="para">

   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.

  </p>

  <p class="para">

   The following databases are supported by the Unified ODBC

   functions: <a href="http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/adabas/adad/" class="link external">&raquo; Adabas D</a>,

   <a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/" class="link external">&raquo; IBM DB2</a>,

   <a href="http://www.iodbc.org/" class="link external">&raquo; iODBC</a>,

   <a href="http://www.solidtech.com/" class="link external">&raquo; Solid</a>, and

   <a href="http://www.sybase.com/" class="link external">&raquo; Sybase SQL Anywhere</a>.

  </p>

  <blockquote><p><b class="note">Note</b>: 

   

    With the exception of iODBC, 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. However, building PHP 

    with iODBC support enables you to use any ODBC-compliant 

    drivers with your PHP applications. More information on iODBC,

    is available at <a href="http://www.iodbc.org/" class="link external">&raquo; www.iodbc.org</a>

    with the alternative unixODBC available at 

    <a href="http://www.unixodbc.org/" class="link external">&raquo; www.unixodbc.org</a>.

   <br />

  </p></blockquote>

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