Kevin Waterson wrote:
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.
The point of PDO is not to gain database independence, rather a very
real attempt to create a standard database interface for PHP. This
it succeeds in doing.
It is a reasonable start, but given the MAJOR differences in SQL, it is
only a start and only solves SOME of the 'standardisation' problems in
what seems a less than 'standard' way :(
Most of us need it to get a lot more support before we can even start to
consider switching to it - and the agro caused by now having apparently
*FIVE* versions of PHP on the go does not help .....
( PHP4.3.x - PHP4.4.0 - PHP5.0.5 - PHP5.1.x and PHP6 ALL of which
require work moving even existing applications between them !!! )
Having to go BACK to fix problems introduced by PHP4.4 when the main
development effort is PHP5 is simply a waste of resources - for a
'problem' that should perhaps have been picked up a lot sooner so that
the 'use' of it in many libraries could have been prevented in the first
place ?
Many people can't even fix the errors because they are in third party
libraries - so the ISP's HAVE to drop back to 4.3 ? But it would be nice
to see an orderly move to a SINGLE PHP codebase ?
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Lester Caine
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