Re: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

[email protected] (Jon Parise) Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:21:51 -0500
Newsgroups php.pear
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:22:14PM -0400, Paul Meagher wrote:

> > Because PEAR::DB is distributed with PHP, you don't need to bundle
> > aything with your application.  You can already assume that the
> > database interface exists.
> 
> I agree that in the long term we can assume this, however, in the shorter
> term if I were to release an app that used PEAR's db abstraction I would
> probably try to bundle the classes with it to ensure that they could use it
> out of the box.  I am still interested in knowing what a minimal PEAR:DB
> abstraction layer for mysql would consist of.  I can find out myself but I
> though someone here would have a quick answer.
 
You'd need to include DB.php, DB/mysql.php, and the PEAR error stuff.
I think that's everything.

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Jon Parise ([email protected])  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
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