Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Couldn't find your reference

Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > I personally don't see why this should be taken to the PHP core. Wouldn't > it be better to make some "libc" (or "libdb" or "stdlib") for > PHP, make it > easily installable and multi-user (which PHPLib isn't) - maybe via > model similiar to DBI approach, and take it to the PHP distribution? I > ... Yes, that should exist and be the case for higher level functions built on the PHP core but DB abstraction for sanity's sake and some form of template processing for speed seem to me to be core features. A recent interview with some of the developers (ex-zeev and stas) indicated that DB abstraction and templating were on the way... now I'm a little worried and confused... can someone comfirm or not whether these two important (to me) core features will be so ? --markc