Re: Database Code Portability

This topic is covered a lot. Right now there are two major DB abstraction packages, Manuel Lemos' Metabase ( http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20 ) and the one that is distrubuted with PHP located in your distributions PEAR directory. Try both, see which one works better for you. Michael Dave Haggerty wrote: > I haven't seen this issue discussed, sorry if I missed it: > > My question is why are the PHP database functions so unportable? Is there a > reason why they have to be specific to, say MySQL. It seems to me (even > though I am an amatuer to this stuff) that the code should be much more > easily portable from one db to another? > > Do most coders add an abstraction layer themselves? Or maybe people just > don't port PHP code much and so don't worry about it? > > Mainly curious.... > > Dave > > -- > 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