RE: [PEAR-DEV] MDB: Unified DSN Constant

> From: Davey [mailto:davey@pixelated-dreams.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 4:47 PM > The idea is that rather than every package using MDB requiring the login > information for MDB (be that an array or a DSN), MDB should implement a > default DSN registration, where a user can define a default DSN for all > packages to use, and MDB would put that into a constant for every > package to use. > > It would be able to check for that constant (by implmenting it in MDB > its name is set in stone, it won't change on a per-package basis as the > author feels like it for just their package. > > It would allow the package to check the constant and decide to use that > or allow the user (or require them) to supply new credentials for that > specific package. > > I just really hate the idea that a user has to specify a DSN for *every* > package that uses MDB. Why not define your MY_DEFAULT_DSN constant which you then pass to every package that needs a dsn? What might be more feasible is a suggestion that came recently about making all packages that use M?DB to allow passing of an existing object instance. Regards, Lukas