Re[4]: [PEAR-DEV] Framework Development (2)

Hallo Martin, Sunday, June 16, 2002, 10:35:31 PM, you wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:07:26 +0200, Jens Fischer wrote: >>Currently I use the old PEAR DB classes for database access, since I >>haven't tried out MDB, yet. I am using a MySQL backend for testing, >>but moving to another DB should be no problem due to PEAR DB. > FYI: Don't rely on PEAR DB too much when it comes to database > abstraction. PEAR DB provides a unique API for a lot of different > database engines, but it does not work around specific features that > are only available in a specific engine. Anyways, if you only use > "standard" SQL, the chances are pretty good that your application will > work with no modifications on different SQL engines. The only not truly ANSI SQL compliant feature I use is the MySQL data type of TIMESTAMP, which has no relevance in the application but simply automatically logs the modified date for each table row. I am developing with the purpose to easily migrate to any DB backend supported by PEAR DB, so this should be no big problem at all. > Apart from that > PEAR DB's API is simply cool and it saves you a bunch of work even if > you don't need database abstraction :-). Full ACK! >>I'm in! Could you publish it on the Pear CVS tree? > >IIRC there has been the decision some time ago that complete PHP >frameworks don't fit in PEAR's structure. About publishing my framework at PEAR CVS: I have no CVS account and I must agree to Martin's posting on this list: let's not clutter the CVS with so many different classes. I didn't know that PEAR is not meant to host complete frameworks. I don't like this decision but of course I will follow it. So no addition of my MVC framework to PEAR, maybe I will publish it somewhere else (sourceforge or tigris or dunno). Sebastiao, you can still have a snapshot of the current development status, so you can have a look at it. Shall I upload it on some private webspace or would you like me to email it to you privately? > - Martin -- MfG, Jens