[thelist] CF: Determining which DB used.
Raymond Camden
jedimaster at macromedia.com
Wed Sep 12 11:45:12 CDT 2001
>
> CFRegistry obviously only works on Win systems, and only when
> it has not been disabled in the Administrator console (on
> production machines, generally it should be disabled).
Um... no. CFRegistry does work in nonwin formats, but we use a "fake"
registry for non-win.
> So, for this to work cross-platform, your code would need to
> check the 'Server.OS.Name' variable. If the only DB you are
> running under Linux is MySQL, then the DBtype is always MySQL
> when the OS is Linux, right? If the server OS is Windoze,
> you check the registry (if the cfregistry tag is enabled).
This is a good trick though.
-Ray
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