Re: DB stuff

Excuse me, where is the documentation for the DB abstraction layer? I can't seem to find any in the <http://www.php.net/manual>. Thank you for your time, -Stathis. Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > PHP 4 comes with a database abstraction layer. You would use it like > this: > > <? > require_once 'DB'; > $db = DB::connect('odbc://rasmus:pw@host/my_db'); > $stmt = $db->prepare('select * from my_table'); > $result = $db->execute($stmt); > while($row = $db->fetchrow($result)) { > while(list($key, $value) = each($row)) { > echo "$field: $value<br>\n"; > } > } > $db->disconnect(); > ?> > > To change to a different database type the only thing you need to do is > change the 'odbc' work in the DB::connect() call. > > You can of course read that database connection identifier string from > anywhere you like and thereby configure your database access with a > one-liner in any file you like. > > -Rasmus > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Voitenko, Denis wrote: > > I am wondering why wouldn't PHP support database connectivity like most > > application servers do, e.g. something like a data source in JRun or > > WebLogic where database connectivity is made DB server independent and all > > the DB connectivity is configured in the guts of PHP? > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net