Re: PHP is NOTa Bloated Kludge, end of discusion?

> >OK, true. But, this is necessary if you want PHP to automatically > >connect to different DBs. > >A plus to portability and a minus to... (to what?) The first minus is to performance -- You route through more and more layers of functions as you add databases and functionality. The next minus is feature-set -- If you *really* want platform-independence, you are stuck with SQL92 (more-or-less). The '92' stands for 1992, which is 63 years old technology in doggie-years. :-) The point is that at that time, even an automatically incrementing ID field wasn't agreed on! Writing high-performance platform-independent SQL is virtually impossible. You'll be giving up every advance in database technology since 1992. Your other option is to write your own SQL parser to de-construct SQL and re-build it in a platform-specific way... Of course, there's always ODBC, which is more-or-less standard and in some cases has decent performance... But it's not a no-brainer uniform cross-platform reasonable-performance answer. -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm