Re: Fwd: [Phpsqliteadmin-devel] SQLite ext vs PDO ext

[Firman W. <fi...@gm...>]

On 9/29/05, Yves Glodt <yg...@mi...> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2005 06:44, Firman Wandayandi wrote:
> > On 9/28/05, Yves Glodt <yg...@mi...> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 September 2005 16:41, Felipe Lopes wrote:
> > > >  Hi there Firman!
> > > >  we cannot disconsider php4's users...There are much more ppl on
> > > > php4 yet if compared to php5.
> > >
> > > yes and even with php51 next to the door I guess we will see many
> > > php4 installs for the next 1 or 2 years... We must stay
> > > php4-compatible. Of course, we can have 2 db-layers, but then, php5
> > > also has the sqlite extension and I don't really see a benefit of
> > > using pdo right now. I think the sqlite extension has more
> > > functions than pdo-sqlite.
> >
> > Yep, that's true about benefit. Also you right Yves about sqlite
> > function has more than pdo, caused I dunno how to create the
> > aggregate functions using pdo. Where is it? gone?
>
> I don't know, but I guess, due to the db-unspecificness of pdo, we will
> never see functions that are dbms-specific (e.g. ibase_gen_id() from
> firebird) in pdo...
>

Absolutely, that's what I meant. PDO is easy, simple and maybe faster,
also built-in in PHP5, but it's poor with specifics database
functions.
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Firman Wandayandi
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