Wez Furlong has a quick new post over on his blog today about an article that he wrote for the IBM DeveloperWorks blog - Connect PHP to DB2 and Cloudscape via PDO.

PHP 5.1 is set to ship with a brand-new database connectivity layer known as PHP Data Objects (PDO). While PHP has always had very good database connectivity, PDO takes PHP to the next level. Learn how to obtain, install and use PDO to connect to IBM DB2 Universal Database and IBM Cloudscape databases, insert and retrieve data, and explore more advanced features, such as prepared statements, bound parameters, scrollable cursors, positioned updates and LOBs. Also, get a brief introduction on handling multibyte data.

With his talk about the PHP Data Objects at php|tropics, Wez really piqued my interest in using this versitile little set of tools to connect to data sources, and, with the info from this article, yet another source is added to that list - DB2 and Cloudscape.