Comments on: PDO For WordPress and WP > 2.8

By: Joseph Mark Jarvis

Joseph Mark Jarvis — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:24:46 +0000

@Justin

phpinfo() reports pdo and pdo_sqlite are loaded:

PDO
PDO support: enabled
PDO drivers: sqlite, mysql, sqlite2

pdo_sqlite
PDO Driver for SQLite 3.x: enabled
PECL Module version (bundled) 1.0.1 $Id: pdo_sqlite.c 272374 2008-12-31 11:17:49Z sebastian $
SQLite Library: 3.3.7

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:36:15 +0000

Joseph
in order to use PDO_SQLITE you need the pdo library and the pdo_sqlite library.
different platforms load these in different manners as is normal for php.
You can find more about them here: http://fr.php.net/manual/en/pdo.installation.php

you can verify whether they are loaded by examining the output of phpinfo()

By: Joseph Mark Jarvis

Joseph Mark Jarvis — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:20:32 +0000

@Justin

* Which are the relevant PDO extensions?
* How does one verify they’re loaded?

Thanks.

By: bvandrunen

bvandrunen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:19:36 +0000

Well here is the situation, hopefully you can understand it: Right now I am working on automating wordpress -> meaning when I click “install” in our software it runs a script which buys a domain, installs wordpress, sets up database and sets up our customization. Right now it works great and we use a XML feed to implement our data for each site for our customers.

As of right now we are using an XML website that was created (not on wordpress) But we would like to use wordpress because it will allow our customers to create blogs for themselves if they like. We get about 20-30 new customers a day.

This is where the problem comes in: the database we use right now for all of our customers is based in MS SQL and we have been running it for 6-7 years so we aren’t about to change it. But we want to use all of our variable such as (@businessname etc) for our database instead of XML feeds – faster, easier to maintain etc.

Therefore the biggest reason I want to get wordpress on MS SQL is so that we can use our current database with wordpress without having to move it to MYSQL (which won’t happen). We also would rather use a database instead of XML feeds.

Hopefully this helps you out. Currently my system works but we have to maintain 2 databases (MYSQL and MS SQL) and have to use XML feeds instead of database variables. Any suggestions on how to make this situation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:47:37 +0000

I don’t think that he ever published it.
it was not a plugin as such but a first stab of an MS Sql driver for my plugin.

unless you are a database guru, i would counsel against MS Sql. Apart from the fact that it is terrifyingly expensive and needs a heavyweight server to power it, why would you want it to power a simple blog?

if you can run mysql then i’d stay with it. if you want the benefits of an encapsulated system like sqlite, then most probably your php installation already supports it. all you need to do is set the DB_TYPE definition to ‘sqlite’ and everything should work.

i keep promising to have a go porting to mssql but inertia always defeats me. I don’t have a windows system to test on, nor do I have ms sql (although i guess i could use sql express or whatever the free version is called). there are several inconsistencies with sql ansi that would annoy me and, regrettably, the client libraries for php< ->mssql are really not great. very buggy with big fields. could get around it, perhaps, with odbc but then the odbc client libraries are hardly paragons of virtue themselves…

looking forward to hearing why you want ms sql.