Re: does anyone use metabase?

Hello David, On 04-Aug-00 18:40:14, you wrote: >Does anyone actually use metabase by Manuel Lemos? According to PHP Classes site, over 2.200 (real) individual users downloaded Metabase, not that all of them use it. :-) >I don't find any discussion about it in the geocrawler archives (current to >end of July) though plenty of promo posts by the author. It's got an >impressive list of features and I see it referenced in articles about php >often enough; why isn't it becoming popular? Well, I believe that most PHP users use only one database and don't care much about writing database independent sites. Actually, it seems most users use MySQL because it has been free for a long time, most articles and books only provide PHP database programming examples about MySQL and even PHP core developers are big fans of MySQL. Of course MySQL is not the only and not necessarily the best database for PHP development, but it seems that for most people MySQL is the only obvious choice for PHP programming so they think don't need to develop applications that work with other databases. Soon or later some realize that they may need switch databases, for instance to overcome MySQL limitations or to make their applications run with more than one database, but it seems those are not as much as you could imagine. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org -- E-mail: mlemos@acm.org URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --