[ANNOUNCEMENT] DB_DataObject-1.4 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package DB_DataObject-1.4 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- New Features / Fixes - oracle supported, by adding portibility option. - optional entity quoting added (Justin Patrin) - requires patch to DB at present - quote_entities = 1 in ini file (or config) - revert to old behaviour on query clearing it is cleared after first fetch() / it stays set after find() - Debug prefixes all message with class name. - new Overrideable method sequenceKey(), allows manual override of sequence keys - count fixed. - more Mysql Boolean types supported by generator. - $do->query('BEGIN'); will turn off autocommit forever. - nested Joins for Mysql do not use brackets. Updated note about overload.. - DB_DATAOBJECT_NO_OVERLOAD, if defined, dataobjects will not be overload NOTE: overload causes problems in PHP4: - all pass and return by reference fail - zend optimizer may segfault - getDatabaseConnection() does not return real connection (eg. it's read only!) Package Info ------------- DataObject performs 2 tasks: 1. Builds SQL statements based on the objects vars and the builder methods. 2. acts as a datastore for a table row. The core class is designed to be extended for each of your tables so that you put the data logic inside the data classes. included is a Generator to make your configuration files and your base classes. nd Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=DB_DataObject Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB_DataObject-1.4.tgz Authors ------------- Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> (lead)