Re: PEAR DB abstraction layers

Paul M Jones wrote:

On Apr 19, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Lukas Smith wrote:

Stephan Schmidt wrote:

Hi, I think it would be great to highlight _all_ differences and show the simple usage of MDB2 as most of the users probably are not aware how MDB works.

Ok as I have said MDB2 can do everything DB can (if I missed a feature let me know .. shouldnt be a problem since after all its all opensource)

The list of stuff about MDB2 is fine from a marketing and awareness point of view, but what would really be useful (especially if an MDB2 "take-over" is pre-ordained) is a transition document for developers. Actually show the different usage; e.g., "Where you used to call $db->getAll($query), you need to do this instead: ..." It would be a good piece of change management, but yes, it would be a lot of work. :-(

Thats the point. Such a document is actually not that much work because MDB2 tries to follow the DB API as much as possible. Documenting all of these additional features is obviously alot of work though. 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