Hello, on 08/03/2006 09:25 AM Paul Scott said the following: > The main thing in Manual's post that got me writing this in the first > place was : > > "Imagine if there would be only one PDBC (JDBC for PHP). Instead of that > we have a never ending choice of PHP database abstraction layers that > does not help newcoming developers that are lost and don't know what to > use." I admit I have not expressed myself clearly. What I meant is not that people should be disallowed to implement alternative APIs, but rather that they should not feel the need to do it. In the Java world, JDBC is the de facto standard because Java developers do not feel the need to develop other database APIs. That happens because JDBC is a standard API defined by several players from the SQL database world that sit together and defined a consensual API specification. In the PHP world there is no such organization nor the vision of the benefits of cooperating to define such standards. I already gave an example of the benefits of having such standard API specifications in the other comment to Rob. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.metastorage.net/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
