Re: ODBC

[Hemant Dangi]

Hello Kritze,

Thanks for showing interest in Mysql Connector/ODBC.

If you want your client application to work with multiple database system and independent of any particular database library, you can use ODBC system. And to connect with these multiple database systems you need to register there individual drivers and configure DSN. A Data Source Name (DSN) associates the configuration parameters for communicating with a specific database. So odbc connection is a set of configuration parameters for that specific database.

Please refer below documentation for details about ODBC and MyODBC.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/110093
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connector-odbc.html

And yes it is possible to use odbc with php.
http://php.net/odbc

Thanks.