RE: [PHP4BETA] Database Abstraction

If you look in PEAR (installed in /usr/local/lib/php/ by default I believe)
you'll se DB.php and a DB/ dir.  This is database abstraction layer code but
I've had trouble using it with the new 'use()' function.  It's pretty new
too so I don't believe any docs exist for it as of yet. 

Looks very promising though.

-D

-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Couto [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 4:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PHP4BETA] Database Abstraction



Hello!

I have a question: Do you have any intention to include a feature like
database abstraction layer at PHP4? I was thinking to use PHPLib to do
this, but I have found some things at their code that I didn't like...

Of course that I can write functions or classes just to do that but if we
have something implemented directly in PHP4 it will be easier and the most
important thing: it's difficult to implement something really generic that
can be used with all databases. I think that we need specialists at many
DBMS to do the right thing and to have good performance at all of
them. I've worked a lot with Oracle but I didn't know the other DBMS
suficiently to do a really good work. The databases are the heart of a
site and if you loose performance doing dumby functions, it can be
critical...

If there is an interest in implementing that, I would like to colaborate.

Thanks,
Andre.

PS: Sorry about any English mistakes... My portuguese is better! :-))




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