RE: [PHP-DEV] database abstraction layers [from: MySQL feature/bu g]

Hi, >I need to spend some time with the Zend API to see if it's really worth it >for my time to go about doing it, but yes, I am very much considering >turning it into C. >I've really been hoping that someone was going to take an intermediately >complex Zend extension and put together a how-to that would help beginners >and advanced programmers alike. I've managed to create a working module using the 'web application development with php 4.0' book, lurking on this list, searching on the net and nosing through the code. The module is able to use functions from the compiled-in mysql-module and all seems ok, so I think the basic ingredients to build a db-abstraction module are available... >I think there is a real need for someone or a group of programmers to get >together and write a step-by-step theory/implementation "cookbook" for the >sake of the community. Should I reach that point, I'd be happy to do it, but >I tend to believe that the community could do it faster and better than I >could right now, and that if if such a document were made publicly >available, the community could build more and better core tools faster. You could try www.zend.com/apidoc, which contains a part of the book I mentioned and gives a nice intro/howto to developing php-extensions. It's helped me, I know :-) Cheerio, Marc.