Drizzle + PHP = Sweet

I’ve just successfully configured Drizzle with the PHP Extension and successfully retrieve data to present on a web page.

Qudos to Eric Day for his work. I was able to identify a problem with the current tar release, and a quick confirmation on #drizzle at IRC confirmed a fix had already been commited.

I’m looking forward to evaluating WordPress and Drupal , two popular and common LAMP stack applications that run on MySQL, and to provide any feedback to the community for future support of Drizzle.

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