Re: PDO for PHP 4 (was Re: Quick Poll: PHP 4 / 5)
| From: | Kevin Waterson | Date: | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:08:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PDO for PHP 4 (was Re: Quick Poll: PHP 4 / 5) | ||
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This one time, at band camp, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote:
> The matter is that PDO does not offer real database independence, so
> application developers that want to not have to deal with the important
> aspects that are different among databases will still have to deal them
> in their applications making their applications non-portable.
The point of PDO is not to gain database independence, rather a very
real attempt to create a standard database interface for PHP. This
it succeeds in doing.
Kevin
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