Re: roles in the Pear DSN

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 22:48, shaun X core wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first message to the php.pear.dev group, so first of all I'd > like to say I have found it incredibally usefull and some of the best > php code I have worked with. Which brings me to my next point. It was > fine up until I realized I was going to need to have users log in with > different roles (using interbase), anyway I went ahead and changed the > ibase.php and db.php files, both of which I found very readable and > simple to alter with out changing coding format etc. It works for > interbase, but I have not yet tried roles on mssql or oracle. I was just > wondering if it was worth me adding role to the DSN or not? I modified > parseDSN so that it looks for the role after the password i.e > user:pass:role ... Are there allready plans to implement roles into the > DSN or am I missing something obvious as to why it doesnt allready? > thanks -shaunXcore Not being familiar with InterBase, I never knew there was such a thing as roles when connecting to a database. I wonder if this could be implemented as a protocol option to avoid cluttering the DSN string format. What do you think, Tomas? - Stig