Re: one abstraction layer (my proposal for)

Hello, John Lim wrote: > > 4.9) Data quoting (manual & automatic) > > Automatic is very difficult to do unless you can query the database > internals > for field types. MySQL/PostgreSQL is trivial as numbers can be quoted, but > other databases will object. Definitely only in "portable PEAR DB" please. I think automatic means when using prepared queries where you specify the type of data using the proper paremeter value set function. > > * (4.8) Data Type conversion to be done by a more generic class > > PEAR_DataType > > (suitable to be used in other enviroments too, like xmlrpc, etc) > > Sounds good, but you need to define what abstract data types you want > to support. The main issue is dates and datetime, because Unix timestamps > are not very good equivalents for dates unfortunately. Most other > database types have natural PHP mappings. Not just date and time fields, but also decimal and float fields besides the others that are more obvious. Regards, Manuel Lemos