Re: [PHP4BETA] Easier Porting To Different Databases
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:14:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] Easier Porting To Different Databases | ||
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I am curious to know if there are plans to "regularise" database calls in PHP so that
> it
> is simpler to port a PHP application from one database to another.
>
> For instance Mysql and Postgresql have very similar PHP calls, but Oracle is completely
> different.
>
> I guess I am thinking of Perl DBI where you can always do
> "$handle->fetchrow_array()"
> no matter what the database actually is.
Yes, there is an effort underway as a package in PEAR.
-Andrei
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