Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Randy Jay Yarger wrote: > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:44:41 -0500 (EST) > From: Randy Jay Yarger <ryarger@astro.detroit.usweb.com> > To: Andrei Zmievski <andrei@ispi.net> > Cc: php-dev@lists.php.net, php4beta@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released > > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > Besides, things like DBI limit you to the lowest common denominator as > > far as functionality is concerned. > > Are you sure about that? I use MySQL specific things in DBI applications > all the time. If I need to port them to another RDBMS all I need to do is > hunt to for the $dbh->func calls for database-specific functions. > > There is a lot to be said for abstraction. There is also alot to be said > for having abstraction in the core as writing 'pure core' PHP makes it > trivial to move to another PHP-aware system. Using PHPLIB limits you to > systems with PHPLIB installed. True, but installation of PHPLIB is trivial. Any user responsible for the maintenance of a document hierarchy can install PHPLIB for use with that hierarchy, since PHPLIB is just a set of PHP scripts. Installation of PHPLIB is really not that daunting; any user with access to a PHP interpreter and a SQL backend should be able to install and use it. Eric > > -- > Randy Jay Yarger | US Web/CKS > ryarger@uswebcks.com | http://astro.detroit.usweb.com/randy/ > > > -- > 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 > >