On Feb 17, 2008 3:49 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Richard Lynch wrote: > > On Sun, February 10, 2008 9:31 am, Jochem Maas wrote: > > > Larry Garfield schreef: > > >> http://www.php.net/pdo > > >> > > >> All the cool kids are doing it. > > > > > > not true - some of them use firebird ;-) > > > > And some have figured out that PDO does not quite live up to its > > promise (yet) and needs some more work... > > > > Particularly for the commercial DBs, as I understand it... > > You say that like I care about non-open-source databases. It's not PDO's > fault that Oracle still thinks it's 1988. :-) > > Even if you're just using MySQL, PDO is far nicer than ext/mysql and > ext/mysqli is not widely installed enough to be useful for those of us who > have to deal with shared hosts. > > You say that like you're the only person using PHP for databases. ;-) Perhaps you don't care; some of us do. (SQL Server in my case, not Oracle.) I like the idea of PDO, but I don't like the way a couple things work with regard to parameterized queries and some things just flat out don't work right. Andrew
