Re: Database Abstraction

hi, > There are millions of PHP-scripts using MySQL. Most of them probably doesn't > use an Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL) in order to support other databases. > [..] There are (too) many parallel efforts trying to create yet another database abstraction layer. We all know it's necessary, but we also know that by ab- stracting you have to either reduce the available features to the least common denominator (not so good), or emulate stuff within the abstration layer. Check out the existing ones, first: http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=7&catname=Database http://phplib.sf.net/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/metabase/ -daniel