Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/11/07 13:38

Sanders Kaufman wrote:
> Michael Fesser wrote:
>
>> You would be surprised how many of PHP's functions are just wrappers
>> around external libraries. I would say that's the case for >90% of it.
>
> I *am* surprised.
>
>>> Seems to me, if I was the PHP guys, I wouldn't have made it so.
>>
>> You would have rewritten all the functions of the MySQL library in PHP?
>> Think about it ...
>
> No - not all. Didn't say that; didn't imply it.
>
> I just thought that the subset of MySQL-related features were entirely
> within the PHP binaries.
>
> I guess I now know why PHP with MySQL support has to be compiled to
> include the MySQL libraries.
>
> Personally - I'm a recovering Microsoftie, so this whole thing about
> compiling and recompiling other people's applications, with other other
> people's applications still totally blows me away.

PHP doesn't recompile MySQL or any other applications. It just links
into the MySQL libraries.

Did you ever write a non-web based application - i.e. C/C++, which used
MS SQL? Or even a Windows application? Did you recompile MS SQL or
Windows for your application? Or did you just link to their libraries?


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