Re: What's the PHP-equivalent of Perl's AUTOLOAD feature?

Hi Chris, Thanks for the info. I probably need to make myself more clear, as I'm not referring to a database abstraction layer in terms of drivers (e.g., "dbx" in PHP, DBI in Perl). I think the best example of what I'm talking about is in Tim Kientzle's "Perl and Rapid Database Prototyping" article of December's TPJ: http://www.chipcastle.com/tpj/TPJDecember2002.pdf The first few paragraphs should give you the basic idea, so let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks! Chip Castle / Open Source Web Developer http://www.chipcastle.com Chris Hayes wrote:

At 02:06 17-1-2003, you wrote:

I just read an interesting article in The Perl Journal (TPJ) about using AUTOLOAD as a layer of abstraction for accessing database columns and I would like to write something similar in PHP. Is this possible?

If you mean some sort of database abstraction so one script would work on MySQL as well as Oracle; there is not such a thing within PHP itself. The google search term would 'database abstraction layer' and a popular one is ADODB (not to be confused with the other adoDB), at http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB. If that's not what you mean please try to explain it again.... Chris Hayes