Re: conceptual questions

Hi Antony, THX for your answer so far. AD> Statement will be parsed only to detect placeholders in it. OK - so the syntax of the statements coming from the application will be discribed in an API-description, right? AD> Nah. The idea of PDO was to provide *unified API* to all supported AD> databases. To handle all features/misfeatures is kinda impossible AD> mission IMHO. Thats my opinion too, but I wanted to know what's the concept behind PDO. I think it would be also a possible idea to handle ANSI-2 INTERMEDIATE only. If this would be the decision the userland should work with almost all DBS also. Where is a little documentation of the PDO-API available? So this a basic information for me on whether to prefer PDO for forthcoming projects or not. Perhaps I will decide to build an PHP-Layer for the meantime until PDO is ready to rock. That would make it possible for me to already design the userland and swapping the used layer later to get more performance. AD> Perhaps, here: AD> AD> http://netevil.org/node.php?uuid=bf0a58d7-68ab-49d0-9a29-f5ec97c5dfde AD> you can find some answers for your questions. Here there are only basic infomation and examples. But the reality is a little more complex I think. AD> Testing is a Good Thing[tm] at any time, so feel free to test it and to AD> send your results/patches/money/proposals/criticism =) Therefore it would be a senseful thing to know about the PDO-API... ;-) Enrico Ortmann [ro@radax.net]