ADOdb Files

ADODB Library for PHP5
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(c) 2000-2012 John Lim (jlim@natsoft.com)

Released under both BSD and GNU Lesser GPL library license. 
This means you can use it in proprietary products.

Version 5.17 17 May 2012
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Updated oci8 driver to use oci_* functions to be compatible with PHP 5.4.

Misc bug fixes and improvements. See changelog.



Changelog
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* Active Record: Removed trailing whitespace from adodb-active-record.inc.php.

* odbc: Added support for $database parameter in odbc Connect() function. 
       E.g. $DB->Connect($dsn_without_db, $user, $pwd, $database). 
  Previously $database had to be left blank and the $dsn was used to pass in this parameter.
* oci8: Added better empty($rs) error handling to metaindexes().

* oci8: Changed to use newer oci API to support PHP 5.4.

* adodb.inc.php: Changed GetRowAssoc to more generic code that will work in all scenarios.


Introduction
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PHP's database access functions are not standardised. This creates a 
need for a database class library to hide the differences between the 
different databases (encapsulate the differences) so we can easily 
switch databases.

We currently support MySQL, Interbase, Sybase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, 
Microsoft SQL server,  Foxpro ODBC, Access ODBC, Informix, DB2,
Sybase SQL Anywhere, generic ODBC and Microsoft's ADO. 

We hope more people will contribute drivers to support other databases.


Documentation and Examples
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Refer to the adodb/docs directory for full documentation and examples. 
There is also a  tutorial tute.htm that contrasts ADODB code with 
mysql code.



Files
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adodb.inc.php is the main file. You need to include only this file.

adodb-*.inc.php are the database specific driver code.

test.php contains a list of test commands to exercise the class library.

adodb-session.php is the PHP4 session handling code.

testdatabases.inc.php contains the list of databases to apply the tests on.

Benchmark.php is a simple benchmark to test the throughput of a simple SELECT 
statement for databases described in testdatabases.inc.php. The benchmark
tables are created in test.php.

readme.htm is the main documentation.

tute.htm is the tutorial.


More Info
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For more information, including installation see readme.htm
or visit
           http://adodb.sourceforge.net/


>> Feature Requests and Bug Reports

Email to jlim@natsoft.com