RE: [PHP4BETA] Database Abstraction

If you look in PEAR (installed in /usr/local/lib/php/ by default I believe) you'll se DB.php and a DB/ dir. This is database abstraction layer code but I've had trouble using it with the new 'use()' function. It's pretty new too so I don't believe any docs exist for it as of yet. Looks very promising though. -D -----Original Message----- From: Andre Couto [mailto:couto@radiumsystems.com.br] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 4:25 PM To: php4beta@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP4BETA] Database Abstraction Hello! I have a question: Do you have any intention to include a feature like database abstraction layer at PHP4? I was thinking to use PHPLib to do this, but I have found some things at their code that I didn't like... Of course that I can write functions or classes just to do that but if we have something implemented directly in PHP4 it will be easier and the most important thing: it's difficult to implement something really generic that can be used with all databases. I think that we need specialists at many DBMS to do the right thing and to have good performance at all of them. I've worked a lot with Oracle but I didn't know the other DBMS suficiently to do a really good work. The databases are the heart of a site and if you loose performance doing dumby functions, it can be critical... If there is an interest in implementing that, I would like to colaborate. Thanks, Andre. PS: Sorry about any English mistakes... My portuguese is better! :-)) -- PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net