RE: [PEAR] Database abstraction layer

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Lukas Smith wrote: > > I have never used DBA nor do I know it well. I think it's a layer on top > of PEAR DB that builds queries for you in order to make development > faster. > DBA is really something else. It's just an object-abstraction for PHP's dba* functions (see php.net/dba). It stores data in Berkeley-style databases, which are simpler, but have a lot fewer features than the relational DBM's that MDB and DB abstract. Berkeley-style databases just store key->value pairs. They're a good way to store and retrieve things like associative arrays, username->passwords, things like that. There are some extensions I'm working on with some people off the list to add more features atop a DBA database, but DBA is the most stable and finished bit so far. DBA_Relational adds some relational database type functionality to DBA databases. A limited SQL parser is also available for making queries, but it needs more work to be useful. - Brent