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Thanks
The quick answer: You need PHP, MySQL and a text editor, nothing else.
The long answer....
As for PHP and Kylix, they are not just different animals but different species. PHP is a scripting/programming language while Kylix is a development environment.
If your project requires programming in C++ or Delphi, you *could* use the Kylix IDE, but you could use a whole bunch of other IDEs as well for C++. The only reason I could think of that you would really *need* Kylix is that you have applications that you built in Borland C++ Builder or Delphi IDE and want to port them to Linux or you plan to build apps that you want to port well across platforms.
PHP is a scripting language that can be programmed in any IDE and is a pretty rich language in terms of features, so I would assume that unless there is some particular feature in C++ or Delphi that you need and which is absent from PHP, you will not need those languages and therefore will not need Kylix.
Creating your application in a compiled language like C++ will give you a big speed boost once it's up and running, but unless you're really good with C++ and new to PHP it will take you way way longer to develop. In any case, I think you may find better support for other DBMs within the Borland environments, but I'm not sure (I know that my old C++ Builder came with some Borland Database Engine and has some components more or less ready to go with some DBMs).
If the interface with the database will be browser-based, PHP is all you need.
If the interface will be a client that you create in Delphi or C++ that will interact directly with MySQL, then you will need to write a program in one of those languages and use the MySQL API to interact.
Tom
If I use Kylix with Mysql , do I need then PHP?
No. Kylix has it's own independant object library for interfacing to a SQL server or client.
or if I use PHP with Mysql do I need Kylix.
No. PHP has it's own ways of interfacing to a SQL server also.
TJ
