Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Database abstraction layer

[Richard R. <rr...@sh...>]

On Saturday 03 March 2001 17:11, you wrote:
> Richard, I tend to agree with Karsten that we should use PEAR or something
> else "standard", if there is such a thing, or phplib.
>
> The sourceforge list archives are still down so I don't have the benefit of
> reading the old messages.  I too would like to know who is working (or in
> charge) of what in the code base.  This would be helpful for sub-team
> collaberation.

My major conecerns with PEAR are:
A.  It is mosty vapor at the moment. (check for yourslef http://pear.php.net/)
B.  The write up I saw on the PHPBuilder site
(http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/allan20010115.php3)
mentioned support for the trivial stuff, but left out the harder, but 
important stuff like:
  1.  Escaping strings (IE in Postgres a ' must be escaped \' and in MSSQL it 
is escaped '')
  2.  Handling dates (Every database handles them differently, thank the SQL 
standard for that)
C.  Almost zero documentation (relates back to A)

I guess I'm in favor of a best of bread approach.  However, if the powers 
that be would rather go with the (currently) vapor "standard" then so be it.  
I'm hopefull that PEAR will improve as time goes on.  Besides, I'm not a big 
fan of the ASPish syntax of ADODB anyway but it doesn't have any of the 
problems I mentioned above concerning the PEAR stuff.

I haven't looked at PHPLib, I will do so and venture an opinion.

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Richard Rowell
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