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

[email protected] (Vinai Kopp) Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:10:46 +0100 (MET)
Newsgroups php.pear
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jon Parise wrote:

> 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.
> 

You'll also need DB/common.php.

Vinai