Standardized database API (was Re: [PHP] ZDNet compares PHP to JSP, ASP & CF (Again, complete this time :))

Hello Mark, On 31-Oct-00 16:46:10, you wrote: >check out this line: >A key concern for us is PHP's lack of a standardized database API: >aren't there like a dozen or so db abstraction layers to choose from? >what about odbc? wtf?!? Forget ODBC, when it comes to deal with issues that vary between different types of databases, ODBC does not save you much work because you still have to handle the differences in your applications. Anyway, we all know that it is not true that PHP lacks of standardized database APIs. What happens is that there are still several packages attempting to do the same and so there isn't advertising effort to get these packages known. Things could have been different if the core PHP developers have made an effort to unify the existing database abstraction packages instead of kicking their own. I am not interested to bring back past discussions on the subject but I can't help feeling frustrated every time I hear about the wrong perception that the media and many users still have about the apparent lack of standardized database API. Anyway, for those that still don't know, if you need a mature and standardized database abstraction package used by thousands of PHP programmers for a long time, you may want to look at Metabase: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20 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 --