Re: Re: Commits to PHP_5_3

Michael Maclean wrote: > Antony Dovgal wrote: >>> Here I'm talking about adding support for tokyo cabinets as a dba >>> handler, not a complete interface to the multiple tokyo cabinet APIs. >> >> Are you sure you want to add it to ext/dba? >> dba is .. well.. dead, and it sound like a complete waste of time. At the moment dba is the best place to add support for tokyo cabinets without introducing major features (or a pecl extension). > > There is an item on the wishlist for PHP 6.0 about refactoring ext/dba > to use PDO-style drivers. I intend to investigate this, unless someone > else wants to. That'd be great. In fact, the interface isn't really bad. It is surely missing multiple features, some of which are only supported by a couple of dbms, but the code behind is what really needs to be improved. > In addition, I wrote a patch for Tokyo Cabinet support > for ext/dba a while back, which Scott applied to PHP6 - I was rather > hoping it'd end up in 5.3.x at some point, but he's been too busy. I'll > dig out the patch if anyone here wants it, I haven't karma to apply it. Cool. Johannes, would it be ok to merge support for tokyo cabinets into PHP_5_3? Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert