RE: [PHP4BETA] Easier Porting To Different Databases
| From: | Andrew Hill | Date: | Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:20:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP4BETA] Easier Porting To Different Databases | ||
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How about ODBC :)
That is sorta what it's for.... :)
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Zmievski [mailto:andrei@ispi.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 5:15 PM
To: Mark Kirkwood
Cc: php4beta@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] Easier Porting To Different Databases
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
* It said 'Winmodem' on the box, but I still feel like I lost. *
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