[CDE-chat] Update / Progress Report

[Andre v. Z. <an...@sp...>]

Hi Everyone

The Cross Database Engine has been receiving an increased number of 
downloads after being dormant for a long time which I think is also 
indicative of our activity on the engine.

The main goal of the project is to translate between dialects to 
facilitate cross database portability for PHP applications and we need 
to start brain storming how our engine will work.  So far I've only seen 
one project called SQL Fairy which actually translates database meta 
data between databases.  They do not currently handle select statements 
as far as I'm aware but we could learn something from their engine.

Another obvious reason to use our library is that developers will need 
to learn only CDE when connecting to their database of choice, and if 
they switch databases it remains the same.  We then eliminate half the 
PHP database manual !!!  It also means the challenge is up to us to 
implement as many PHP supported databases as we can. 

Future goals will be to implement other databases that PHP does not 
support like HyperTables ... who knows, nothing is impossible.

Lets start thinking about some ideas and  post them to 
cde...@li....

Thank you and keep up the good work.

Andre van Zuydam