Re: Abstraction library

David McGlone wrote:
> Hi everyone I got a quick question. I'm wondering if anyone is using a
> DB abstraction layer such as PEAR DB. I've used PEAR DB in the past and
> knew it's been on it's way to extinction, but never looked into
> alternatives or any other way to replace it. Now this has come back to
> bite me in the rear and I don't know what to do. Is PEAR useful anymore
> at this point? Am I better off just writing my own? I hate the thought
> of having to change my habits I've had for so long, but I guess that's
> how it has to be. Maybe I should have rolled my own in the first place
> and I wouldn't have had to rely on something that's not guaranteed :-/

Pear DB was superseded by MDB2 http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 but that has not 
been updated in the last year.
PDO is a half way house to an abstraction layer and while it is having minor bug 
fixes, it is not really abstraction layer, only a different way of interfacing 
to the drivers. It does nothing for
I'm still using ADOdb http://adodb.sourceforge.net/ which I've had no problems 
with in the last 10 years and on the whole transparently switches between 
databases ( including PDO drivers if you want ;) ). It even includes it's own 
cache which can help with repetitive stuff. It is still actively supported, and 
is used by a number of large projects.

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