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

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:29:07 -0300 (BRT), Sebastiao Rocha wrote: >> "Martin Jansen" <mail@martin-jansen.de> 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 > >What are the choices we have then? MDB? I understand that the main work >is being done on the merge with Meta Base. >Will this solve the problems with database abstraction? MBD will incorporate the features of Metabase, which should support more abstracting features than PEAR DB. (I can't tell it excactly, since I don't use Metabase.) - Martin -- Martin Jansen, <mail@martin-jansen.de> http://www.martin-jansen.de/