Re: [phpesp-dev] Porting to PEAR and/or PostgreSQL

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:18, Charlie Smith wrote:
> Where is the API located for PEAR?
> 
> Could the work I'm doing on an OCI8 (Oracle)  rewrite go to help in an effort to port to PEAR compliant DB?
> 
> I've a question with regards to how the NOT NULL default '' fields would be defined in the PEAR description?
> I'd be inclined to define these types of fieds as NOT NULL in Oracle and let the code or a trigger fill in the value
> with something if needed.   Any opinions?
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the PEAR API.  Is this just a supporting library of php code?
> 
> 
> 
> >>> "Jeremy Buchmann" <je...@we...> 09/25/03 11:29AM >>>
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm evaluating the use of phpESP for my company and have a few quick 
> questions.
> 
> First, we use PostgreSQL for all our database needs.  Since phpESP uses 
> mySQL, we would either have to port it to PostgreSQL or assist in the 
> port to PEAR.  I'm experienced in PHP/PostgreSQL, and I think based on 
> the number of lines in the code base that have 'mysql' in them, that I 
> could do a port to PostgreSQL in 1-2 weeks.  I'd rather not fork from 
> the main distribution, so ideally I'd like to help in the port to PEAR, 
> but I've never used PEAR.  With a quick glance at the API, it looks 
> easy enough...fairly similar to Perl's DBI.  So my questions are, how 
> is the PEAR port coming along?  Would my help be welcome and useful?  
> Would phpESP only use the database parts of PEAR?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
> 
> 
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