Re: DB, MDB2, PDO - Future of DB-Abstraction in PEAR

Lukas Smith wrote:

[set a default FetchMode in PDO class] http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=4732

[set Statement class in query() too, not only in prepare(), or set Statement class by a PDO attribute] http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=4987

I am quite certain that both of these will be addressed.

sadly looks like if you were wrong. I cannot really understand why. Particularly if you can't change the hardcoded default FetchMode many people must either wrap PDO or spread PDOStatement::setFetchMode() calls (or additional parameters to all PDOStatement::fetch() calls) all over their code. Of course I perfectly understand that a stable PDO has the highest priority now and devs have other things to, particularly if they themselfes only use the hardcoded FetchMode or own wrapper-classes / DB-frameworks. But for me this is the only real problem with the PDO API, preventing me from using it directly, making it necessary to use a wrapper class. All OOP DB-abstractions I have used have something like that, extensions have dedicated methodes for different FetchModes (like fetch_[assoc|object|row]()... in mysql, mysqli, oci, pgsql, sqlite...), which is not as nice as having a default FetchMode (IMHO). Perhaps it helps if I'd try to write a patch for that, but I'm not a C programmer... Best regards Andreas