Re: DB.php phpInfo() suggestion and questions

["Yermo M. Lamers" <yml@dtlink.com>] > Suggestion: > > It would make auto-generating SQL queries much easier of there were an > "isString" field available in the tableInfo in addition to the "type" > field. then you could know immediately whether a value needs to be > quoted and escaped when generating a query. > > Who can I send patches to and what's the likelihood that such patches > would make it into PEAR? > > Question: > > In DB/mysql.php I note that you can pass the name of a table to > tableInfo(). Code that I'm writing makes use of that and I wanted to > make sure that behavior was going to stay in the library. (i.e. that > it's "official" behavior). tableInfo() is official, we're not planning to remove or replace it anytime soon. > Question: > > Will all the tableInfo() fields be supported on all platforms? Yes, in the extent we can use or extend PHP's database extensions to support it. There's a lot of work left here though, and in some databases it's a lot more work than in others. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway