This abundance of extensions also leads to a lack of consistency in
the APIs. Users must make a concerted effort to keep track of the
independently changing components of PHP they are using.
well, guessing what they encountered - the PEAR project should be forced, as discussed
A key concern for us is PHP's lack of a standardized database API: To
access the Oracle database we were using, we had to code directly to
the Oracle8 API, making our pages very nonportable and upping
sure, I think they did not even notice that PEAR is present...
development costs. There are some ongoing projects in this area,
including an effort to port Microsoft's ADO API to PHP.
what´s that project?
Integrated development tools and debuggers for PHP are scarce (we
could only find one, Ives Development Inc.'s Nexidion Designer, which is nearing Version 1.0 status).
that´s a very good point
Also, any organization doing
clustering or failover with PHP is in largely uncharted waters.
incapable of remembering the discussion on the list I´d say this is a point, too
andré