[MDB2][RFC] drastic refactoring

Hi, Arthur Hundiak approached me a whole back with opinion that MDB2 doesn't go far enough in terms of restructuring to prevent people from loading functionality that they do not need. He therefore proposed restructuring MDB2 very drastically. Atm most DB abstraction layers for PHP that I know work have the following inheritance tree: RDBMS driver extends Common Now what I could also do is the following: I could have each driver be separated into multiple inheritance levels which provide increasing amounts of abstraction. For each level of inheritance I would have a Common class which implements the proxy pattern. There I would implement common functionality and common emulation. For the common class to figure out if to proxy to the driver or not it would check if the method is available in the driver using method_exists() and if the method exist proxy, if not it would use some emulation if available or simply return an error stating that the functionality is not available. Arthur is currently doing some testing and was quite pleased with the first results. I havent thought this thing through a lot yet. Anyways if anyone has some ideas/pointers to this endeavour I would be interested in hearing them. Regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07