[buug] ...And a PHP reference?

Jon McClintock jammer at weak.org
Tue Jul 30 16:30:35 PDT 2002


On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:26:24PM -0700, johnd wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:02:49PM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> > Sorry for the double o-tundra,
> > 
> > I'll also need a PHP book... recommendations? I see on the web many of them are geared towards MySQL, but I imagine on a BSD box I can get a better DB than MySQL. Recommendations there?
> 
> what do you mean by better?  When you say on a BSD box you'd image a better
> DB.  What is that in comparison to?

PostgreSQL is the canonical "better than MySQL" database. But, for most
web development, MySQL is more than enough.

-Jon



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