Re: Abstraction library

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 11:23 -0500, David McGlone wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 12:27 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> > 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 Pear DB was superseded by MDB2 http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 but that has not 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.
> 
> Lester, that sounds good. By any chance would you know how much they
> differ and the learning curve between the two? 

I forgot to add that I took a look at some examples and it looks almost
exactly like PEAR. I'm more less worrying about anything drastic I may
run into once I've gotten so far into the project. I'm afraid it would
be a big setback.

-- 
David M.


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