From:	(Stig Sæther Bakken)	Date:	Thu Mar 15 15:25:36 2001
Subject:	Re: DB Binary

["clayton collie" <ccollie@cau.edu>]
> Yavor,
>    ive been thinking about this also. i think one of the things that would
> help PHP establish itself in relationship to other scripting languages is a
> DBI like modular standard. ive been looking at the specs for Python's DBAPI,
> Perl DBI, Borland's dbExpress, AolServer's NS_DB, Pear::DB, ADODB and
> Metabase for ideas, and as time becomes available, i was planning on
> committing some "sketch" code and specs to paper before inviting more
> comments, and even drafting a preliminary RFC.  time has been limiting,
> however, so im stalled for the moment.
> 
>          if you'd like to discuss some more, post here or email me ...
> 
> PS. you may also want to look at www.guidance.nl/php/dbx for a recent
> attempt at a module level abstraction layer for PHP.

Hi Clayton,

With a C rewrite of PEAR DB, the kind of modularity you have
implemented in dbx is exactly what we need.  The question is whether
we should re-implement all of PHP's database extensions.  I don't
think that's a good idea.  A better solution IMHO is to define a C API
used internally by PEAR DB and implement that interface in each
database extension.

 - Stig

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  Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no>
  Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway