Hello, on 09/13/2005 10:29 PM Oliver Grätz said the following:
Furthermore, PHP5.1 will introduce PDO which unifies this database interface for all db systems. It's a native database abstraction layer.
NEWSFLASH: PDO already exists for PHP 4: http://www.phpclasses.org/pdo Despite of that, I do not think PDO is a compelling reason to use PHP 5. Basically it is yet another attempt to do the same where other abstraction layers extensions have failed like ODBC and DBX. The matter is that PDO does not offer real database independence, so application developers that want to not have to deal with the important aspects that are different among databases will still have to deal them in their applications making their applications non-portable. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
