RE: [PEAR] Database abstraction layer
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:26:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR] Database abstraction layer | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Cook [mailto:busterb@mail.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 1:53 AM
> To: Lukas Smith
> Cc: 'Fredrik Johansson'; pear-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: 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.
>
doh!.
Yeah got that mixed up with DB_Objects (i think that was the name).
Thx for clearing it up!
Regards,
Lukas