Re: PEAR DB and DB_ado

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 10:52, Jonas Koch Bentzen wrote: > I'm confused... I thought the idea behind PEAR DB was to solve the > problem of having 100 different database APIs for PHP. PEAR DB should > provide us with a common way of accessing different databases. But here > comes DB_ado - doesn't that give us yet another way of accessing > databases? > > I realize that DB_ado extens DB_common. What I can't figure out from > looking at the source code is whether DB_ado requires a different > syntax than PEAR DB - and if is does, why has the PEAR community > accepted it, if the point of PEAR DB was to give the PHP coders the > common database API we've all been waiting for? This is not a retorical > question. Like I said, I can't really figure out from looking at the > source code whether DB_ado requires a new syntax or not. DB_ado is simply a driver for DB. If you have installed it, you'll use it like this: $dbh = DB::connect("ado:...."); - Stig