RE: [PEAR] [MDB] What is the current state of DBMS drivers?
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:21:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR] [MDB] What is the current state of DBMS drivers? | ||
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> From: Stefan Neufeind [mailto:stefan@neufeind.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:19 PM
> On 17 Sep 2003 at 10:05, Birgir Stefansson wrote:
>
> > Hey Lukas.
> > MDB is a package I would very much like to use. The problem is that
> > MDB currently doesn't support the database I'm using, to my
> > knowledge.. Do you intend to introduce a driver for informix ? If
so,
> > when ? Regards, Birgir
>
> Birgir,
>
> maybe would it be possible that you try to form such a driver
> yourself and contribute it? Even though you may not have that much in-
> depth-knowledge of PHP (I don't know) I guess it might be possible to
> take a look at the existing drivers and modify them to fit in the
> informix-specific parts. Give it a try. For sure, an informix-driver
> would very much be appreciated.
>
> If you volunteer to write such a driver and need help I'd suggest to
> move the discussion on to the pear-dev-mailinglist.
For MDB 1.x there are uptodate skeleton drivers with detailed
explanations in the docs folder. Along with the unit test suite writing
a driver is really not that big a thing :-)
Regards,
Lukas