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Informix Database Laravel 7


My English being bad, I use a translator to communicate with you. Sorry if the sentences don't always make sense.

As the title suggests, I want to know if it is possible to connect an informix database with a laravel 7 application. All the solutions I found on the web are not compatible with laravel 7.

Do you know, if at the moment it is possible to connect informix to laravel 7 ?

Thank you in advance for your help and your time


Solution

  • I don't think Eloquent supports Informix. You can use PHP PDO though. A code snippet would be as follow:

    $db = new PDO("informix:host=host.domain.com; service=9800;
        database=common_db; server=ids_server; protocol=onsoctcp;
        EnableScrollableCursors=1", "testuser", "tespass");
    

    You may have to install Informix driver for PDO. You can read the links below:

    https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-informix.connection.php

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.instnode.doc/php.htm