Re: php & adodb book suggestins

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:59 +0000, Lester Caine wrote: > David McGlone wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 08:45 +0000, Lester Caine wrote: > >> > David McGlone wrote: > >>> > > can anyone suggest any good up to date books out there on php& > >>> > > adodb. > >> > The only documentation on ADOdb is the website > >> > http://adodb.sourceforge.net/#docs ... has > >> > ANYBODY seen it described in a php book? > >> > While I have bought a couple of php books, the on-line material is always more > >> > up to date and asking often fills in gaps that one had not even thought of. > >> > > > Thanks Lester. I've been playing around with it a lot, but haven't got > > as comfortable with is as I was with PEAR. :-/ > > I started with PHP just before PHP5 was finally released, so never used PHP4, > and found ADOdb very early on so have never used anything else. One gets stuck > in one's way when something simply works ... Probably why I'm finding PDO such a > backwards step having been spoilt by the transparent cross db support ADOdb > provides. I only use Firebird in production, but pulling stuff from other data > sources is a doddle nowadays. Sadly this is true. quite a few times already I've thought about just going back to PEAR. It doesn't have much to do with the code itself, it's more of that "at home" feel. I also have these thoughts that if PEAR went belly up, so could ADOdb. Scary thought indeed. :-/ -- David M.