[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB-1.4.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package DB-1.4.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- New Features: - params support in limitQuery() - sybase: error mapping implemented (floripa) - sybase: numRows() errorNative() errorCode() implemented Bugs fixed: - use rawurldecode() instead of urldecode() for DSN usernames and passwords - ibase: misc bugfixes - ifx: results were not freed - mssql: fix DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC row fetches - mysql: prefer mysql_real_escape_string if available - pgsql: don't specify host on connect if empty - pgsql: quote() did not support booleans - pgsql: modifyLimitQuery() generated wrong LIMIT clause Package Info ------------- DB is a database abstraction layer providing: * an OO-style query API * a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers * prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support it natively * a result object for each query response * portable error codes * sequence emulation * sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching * ordered array, associative array and object formats supported for the fetched rows * row limit support * transactions support * table information interface * DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. The currently supported extensions are: dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, oci8, odbc, pgsql and sybase (DB style interfaces to LDAP servers and MS ADO (using COM) are also avaible from a separate package). Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=DB Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=DB Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB-1.4.0.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <ssb@fast.no> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (developer)