Re: PDO API (was: pdo: binding variables supplied to execute() is NotVeryUseful(tm)...)

On 4/25/05, Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote: > I also noticed that bindParam() and bindColumn() are 1-indexed, which > will raise inconviniences with people using arrays for example to stored > the numeric indexes Passing an array with numeric indices to execute() expects 0 based indices, to cater for this case. Manually calling a bind function expects 1 based indices, as this is the convention for the majority of database APIs. > Beyond that rowCount() is more traditionally affectedRows() etc which > needlessly break with existing method names in both php core extensions > and PEAR packages. Look, PDO is new. It's not breaking anything. Stop claiming that it is breaking things; it doesn't touch your code; it doesn't change the external API of your code. It doesn't make MDB, PEAR DB or any other code change its names. It's just different. Deliberately. > How about sitting down together at php|tropics Sure. > (I didnt plan on going to > a'dam .. dunno about you Wez .. but if necessary I will travel to a'dam > for a day) That's a hell of a commute for me. > and simply going through each of the methods one by one. > Looking at what kind of methods names we currently are using for the > same or similar things in any of the current projects on php.net and > make any adjustments then? Maybe, but I don't see a compelling reason to change the names, or I would have done it already. --Wez.