Re: My contribute do DB/common.php - getMany()

On 10 lipca 2002 at 14:59:33 Lukas Smith <smith@dybnet.de> wrote: > Well this is yet another "high level" method that does not add any > functionality but safes a bit of work for a programmer. Paging results is a very common task for web programmers. I am using getAll(), getOne() very often to became my code shorter and simpler. Many programmers need paging capabilities and there was no easy high-level solution for PHP. When I looked at excelent abstract of Python API I found it has very simple solution. It has cursor with methods fetchOne(), fetchAll() and fetchMany(). PHP has similar getOne(), getAll(), but no getMany(). So it seems logical to add it. > I did some fairly crude testing and it seems like these types of methods > don't really add much overhead. They do however make the API larger and > mean that more code needs to be maintained (although these type of > methods don't need all that much more since they are the same for all > RDBMS). If we do not want to increase code, older getAll() method can be removed with my method which is more universal. > The question is more if we want more of these methods to be part of PEAR > DB/MDB or if they should be moved to a separate package. For backward compatibility it would be better to leave it as they are. -- Johann