Re: DBA - closing in on an initial release (fwd)

The package name should be DBA, not DB_DBA. The package name should correspond to the "main class" if there is one. Your main class is called DBA, so your package should be called DBA too. I can fix the move on cvs.php.net for you so you don't lose cvs history, if you like. - Stig On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 06:19, Brent Cook wrote: > Hi Folks, > > The DBA class and friends located in DB_DBA are almost ready for an > initial release. The classes are working well for me, and though they > could always use some more documentation, I feel that there is enough > included to start using the classes. > > What is there is a wrapper class for the dba functions built into PHP, a > replacement class (DBA_Simple) that implements a DB-style database in PHP, > a compatibility class that exports the dba functions on installations that > do not have DBA compiled in (does dba compile into windows?). > > Additionally, a table class and a database manager class provide advanced > functionality like selects, sorts, joins, projects, automatic table > locking and more. > > The benefit of these classes over flat files or straight-up dba > functions is a richer query system, more uniform access and DBA_Simple > appears to be higher performance than flat files (it uses a linear index > to access a data file, though the data file can be read without it). Cons > are extra complexity (though not much more) and potential impedence > mismatches moving between servers (i.e. different dba drivers might be > available for use), though this can be prevented by using the simple > driver. > > The benefit of these classes over a full-blown DBMS is that it runs > completely within a webserver with no extra software to run, and it is > especially useful when no DBMS is available for use, or you want to use a > cheap hosting service but still have database access. Cons are that it > does not support SQL, but rather simple database operations are > implemented as individual functions and nested to form a query. If you > know database basics, it should not be hard forming queries. > > May I ask for a little peer review and package-releasing magic on the pear > website? Thanks. I hope that someone finds this useful besides me. > > - Brent > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb