Re: Re: fyi: mdb2 and mdb2_schema releases soon

On 4/28/05, Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote: > Justin Hendrickson wrote: > > Very true, however there are methods to get around this. A good example > > is the MDB2/Iterator.php file, containing the MDB2_Iterator and > > MDB2_BufferedIterator. It serves as an adapter of the MDB2_Result class > > to the Iterator interface. > > > > Some conditional file includes based on version number or, better yet, > > an MDB2 option could be setup to allow choosing PEAR_Error or Exceptions > > errors could possibly work. > > > > Of course, this is all highly speculative and Lukas has already stated > > he's not currently interested in implementing the feature. > > Yes. MDB2 is increadibly extensible. You can define custom classes for > alot of things. You can dynamically extend MDB2 using modules that can > be transparently accessed with __call(). /me cringes. So you're using overloading in MDB2? Is this on by default? Are you handling the reference problems somehow? > > And once you are in the PHP5 world you can easily wrap anything. However > the question is if the overhead is really worth it. > > However I am sure that sooner or later someone will step up and create a > PDO based exceptions happy DBAL in PEAR. I discussed this with Daniel in > Frankfurt last fall and the idea was to focus on MDB2 in 2005 and look > for a PHP5 only DBAL for 2006. However so far there really hasnt been a > shift towards MDB2 and this was all totaly hypothetical anyways, as > always with roadmaps in open source. > -- Justin Patrin