[Proposal] DB_OO

DB_OO is a package for simple object oriented database abstraction. It has been in production use for about two years now. I believe it would be interesting to have it part of PEAR. Tutorial and documentation can be found here: http://pear.sergiocarvalho.com/docs/DB_OO-1.0/ Source files can be found here: http://pear.sergiocarvalho.com/docs/DB_OO-1.0/source/ And the package can be installed using: pear install http://pear.sergiocarvalho.com/DB_OO Description ----------- The package generates proxy classes for a Database Abstraction Layer, that represent database tables. Class generation is fully automatic, deduced from metadata present in the RDBMS system catalog. It aims at imposing little to no overhead on the developer, while fulfilling the simplest 80% of operations without any SQL present in the application code. The domain of usage overlaps that of DB_Dataobjects but is not exactly the same. While DB_Dataobjects is building up to be the equivalent of Castor (http://www.castor.org/) for PHP, DB_OO has no pretention of providing features like table joins, field validation or form generation. Instead, the option is made for simplicity of use, which obviously limits the range of features that can be implemented. With the release of this code in GPL, and exposure to the PEAR community, I am hoping to gather developer support for databases other than PostgreSQL and Mysql. I also expect to have the most recently supported database code (mysql) more thoroughly tested. I'm using this package on several of my own commercial projects, so maintaining support is a non-issue. Cheers, Sérgio Carvalho --------------- Portugalmail Multimédia, Lda http://www.portugalmail.pt/