[Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] differences in the RDBMS ext API's]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:49, Lukas Smith wrote: > ok while talking to marcus about sqlite it came up again that some ext > have different function names for similar things which is really > unnecessary. Here is a list of some most used (just a guestimate) > functions. I used the mysql extension as the basis for the most part. Python has a unified database API for all the databases (DB API 2.0), but they can actually get away with it because you can use import to drag a module into the namespace. If I understand correctly, all the php ext's are all in the same namespace, so a giving all the functions the same name would be impossible. I guess you could use xxx_functionname for every function that would make it a lot clearer. Most people use the setup-query-walk_through_result-free routine to query the database, so I don't see a lot of trouble defining a common API. I guess someone should make a proposition for this... Manfred