[ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB-1.1.2 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package MDB-1.1.2 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - This is mainly a bug fix release - 4 new driver were added Oracle (still Beta) Frontbase (still Alpha) Interbase/Firebird (still Alpha, due to missing features) Querysim - All get*Value() methods (excet get*lobValue() for now) will convert a php NULL into an SQL NULL (resulting in API changes in the NULL handling of the get*Value() and replace() methods) - REPLACE emulation now works more similar to how MySQLs REPLACE works - Moved code from the Common constructor into MDB::connect() - Moved code from the Driver constructor into the drivers connect method - PostGreSQL reverse engineering partly implemented - Made the MDB_Date classe behave more similar to PEAR::Date (especially in regards to daylight saving time) Package Info ------------- Documentation can be found at: http://www.backendmedia.com/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 * Module 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 Oracle Frontbase Querysim Interbase Firebird 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-1.1.2.tgz Authors ------------- Lukas Smith <smith@backendmedia.com> (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) Paul Cooper <pgc@ucecom.com> (contributor) Frank M. Kromann <frank@frontbase.com> (contributor) Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (contributor)