[comechao]

Yeah, and MySQL was popular among PHP developers, remember LAMP installers?

[andrewf]

IIRC, in the PHP3 / PHP4 days, the only database binding available in out-of-the-box PHP was MySQL.

[dizhn]

I don't remember it like that. I think even php2 had support for more databases. One I am sure it supported was mSQL. I think they always had ms sql and oracle too. They were after all always very quick to provide bindings for anything with a C library. One of the reasons for php syntax being all over the place is because they tried to keep the C semantics for any given library.

Perhaps what you are remembering is a particular OS or installer's packaging.