Extension:OdbcDatabase

The OdbcDatabase is intended for use with the Extension:External Data extension to add access to any data source via an ODBC driver. It has been developed on RHEL 5 using PHP 5.3.3 and MediaWiki 1.19.1 and has not been tested yet on any other platforms.

It is significant to note that this extension in NOT intended to supply sufficient capability to allow the primary MediaWiki database to be hosted though an ODBC connection using. This extensions provided limited functionality really only suitable to read-only uses, such as the External Data extension.

Configuration parameters
This extension is not configured directly. Rather, it adds a new database type for use in other features or extensions that select the type of database to use, such as the External Data extension.

The database type supplied by this extension is "odbc". In External Data, one might use this in the following directive:

$edgDBServerType['mydatabase'] = "odbc";

User rights
No special User Rights used.