Re: Re: Announce: PDO beta releases

Wez Furlong wrote:

I'm not seeing an easy route to getting hold of a copy to play with (windows :( ) and I'm not seeing much in the function list yet.

http://snaps.php.net/win32/PECL_5_0/ has binaries for all PDO packages (including MS-SQL, which doesn't show up in the PECL package list yet).

Somewhere I've not been before ;)

Is it worth me spending time digging into this just yet, or should I wait for some of missing functionality to be addressed ;)

The API is feature complete (although some drivers don't implement as many features as they could yet).

How are Blob references handled? Sequence management? No Caching? How do we access metadata? LIMIT/FIRST management in SQL?

NOW is the time to investigate it for yourself; it will be too late otherwise.

I start with a check that the tables I need exist, independent of the different SQL requirements of the different engines. On a quick overview, there is nothing to replace MetaTables() ? ADOdb makes differences in SQL formats between databases transparent, is that something that PDO will address? The other area is transparent creation of databases independent of engine. What I am seeing at the moment is only a subset of the problem addressed. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services