Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Eli Marmor wrote: > Cheers! > > OK, all of us already know for a long time that the database abstraction > was not going to be included in this beta. But are there any plans for > it? What is its status? Will it be included in beta4? > > IMHO (well, I know some may disagree, you don't have to start a new > thread about it), the most important issues which forced many of us to > use PHPLIB were the session management (resolved with current PHP4), and > database abstraction. Although PHPLIB helped PHP a lot, it will be much > better, standard, efficient, and elegant to do these two things with the > core PHP. Is it expected soon? > > (P.S.: If you are not convinced about the importance of it to PHP, > please take a look at today's thread of Slashdot about PHP4, and read > why people claim that Perl+DBI is better than PHP. I don't agree with > them, but I think it must be addressed). > > Thanks, > I personally don't think that having this abstraction layer in the core of PHP is really any better than having it in PHPLIB. On the contrary, it's probably much more extendible and easier to debug when it's not written in pure C. Andi