[Zope] Use the ZODB as an ODBC data source

[Joel Burton]

On 28 Feb 2002, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Well, you'd need an SQL engine on top of it, of course (and SQL is a terrible
> language to implement parsers for), plus you would need to write a mapping
> tool to map python classes to SQL tables, etcetera. It's a non-trivial
> undertaking, and I've only heard of a single OODB product that ever had a SQL
> interface (I'm don't recall which one, but I think it was some Smalltalk
> database).
>
> It's probably easier to access the ZODB directly with a PHP module that
> talks to a ZEO server or some COM wizardry below ASP (I'm just blabbering
> here, I really wouldn't know what's necessary to extend ASP).

Using XML-RPC with PHP might be a decent plan, too.

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