Re: [PHP] any reason *not* to use PEAR DB module when accessing mysql?

[email protected] (Lester Caine)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Add me to the list of people recommending PDO.  It's much nicer to work
> with than the ext/mysql API, and frankly more secure since you get
> prepared statements. It won't get you complete database independence for
> a number of reasons (mostly due to databases being too unstandardized
> because they all suck in different ways; I say this as someone who has
> written an abstraction layer atop PDO and it wasn't easy), but it will
> get you part way there and even if you only ever use MySQL is a nicer
> API to work with.

Of cause ADODB will actually use PDO for those databases that are currently 
available in it, and the generic drivers for those which are not currently 
supported by PDO ;) One can also check performance by switching between PDO 
driver and generic if you want to ...

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