RE: [PEAR] [MDB] What is the current state of DBMS drivers?

I'll give it a look. I'll post my questions on the pear-dev. Thank you! Birgir > -----Original Message----- > From: Lukas Smith [mailto:smith@backendmedia.com] > Sent: 17. september 2003 10:21 > To: 'Stefan Neufeind'; pear-general@lists.php.net > Cc: 'Birgir Stefansson' > Subject: RE: [PEAR] [MDB] What is the current state of DBMS drivers? > > > > 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 > >