Re: PEAR::DB with Informix

Folks, I'm really disapointed... I never thought that you would ignore a contribution, or refuse to comment some possible improvement. I'm working with PHP since version 2 and I had developed a lot of code with it, and really, I never thought that I could be ignored like this. I work with Informix/PHP for a long time (at least 5 years), fixing and helping to debug some PHP-Informix problems... I'm really very, very annoyed with this. The PEAR::DB implementation for Informix is, at best, *silly*. It doesn't support transactions, had problems with Informix BLOBs (TEXT and BYTE fields - which by itself is a great drawback) and doesn't support the getSpecialQuery method. I have skills to help the improvement of this class a lot, and the means to test it in a controled environment and/or a production one. The only thing that I was expecting was a word (or opinion) from it's maintainer or other developers for the possible integration of my code changes, as normal in the Open Source community. I had tried to contact Tomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> with this patches four months ago, but I have no response from him, so I posted this original thread, and until now I got no response from the developers/maintainers of this package. Again, I'm waiting your comments... Juvenal A. Silva Jr. TR&D - Technology, Research & Development - V2 Systems "Juvenal A. Silva Jr." <juvenal.jr@uol.com.br> escreveu na mensagem news:20030403133522.42068.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Aren't anyone interested in this??? > > "Juvenal A. Silva Jr." <juvenal.jr@uol.com.br> escreveu na mensagem > news:20030403020519.16073.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > Hi Folks, > > > > I'm porting a large PHP application that I wrote, to use PEAR::DB with > > Informix (IDS 7.31). Until now I was using a DB interface object that I > had > > wrote. Anyway I've found some strange behaviour that's making my port a > > little annoying. Just to mention... > > I use a lot of BLOBs on my tables (TEXT) and I need a way to insert (or > > update) it's contents, so in my object I wrote a method called updateBlob, > > but there is no mention of such a thing on PEAR::DB. I know that > PostgreSQL > > also has to use a separate set of commands to update BLOBs (large > > objects)... So I was thinking about inserting a standard method on > > DB::common and customize it on ifx and pgsql to do the proper actions for > > them (I already did it on ifx). What do you think? > > Comments are welcome... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Juvenal A. Silva Jr. > > TR&D - Technology, Research & Development - V2 Systems > > > > > >