[ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB-1.0_RC3 (devel) Released.

The new PEAR package MDB-1.0_RC3 (devel) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- this is release candidate 3 for MDB 1.0 featuring: major fixes and improvements to the MDB manager; bug fixes to the parser and date; both the mysql and the postgresql driver can now run query() without being connected to a specific database; added xsl that can render xml schema files to html; added initial version of a tutorial Package Info ------------- Documentation can be found at: http://www.dybnet.de/MDB/docs/ PEAR MDB is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers. It provides a common API for all support RDBMS. The main difference to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB goes much further to ensure portability. Among other things MDB features: * An OO-style query API * A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers * Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion * Portable error codes * Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching * Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows * Prepare/execute (bind) emulation * Sequence emulation * Replace emulation * Limited Subselect emulation * Row limit support * Transactions support * Large Object support * Index/Unique support * Extension Framework to load advanced functionality on demand * Table information interface * RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering) * RDBMS independent xml based schema definition management * Altering of a DB from a changed xml schema * Reverse engineering of xml schemas from an existing DB (currently only MySQL) * Full integration into the PEAR Framework * Wrappers for the PEAR DB and Metabase APIs * PHPDoc API documentation Currently supported RDBMS: MySQL PostGreSQL Other soon to follow. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=MDB Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=MDB Download: http://pear.php.net/get/MDB-1.0_RC3.tgz Authors ------------- Lukas Smith <smith@dybnet.de> (lead) Stig Bakken <ssb@fast.no> (contributor) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (contributor) Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> (contributor) Christian Dickmann <dickmann@php.net> (contributor)