On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Sam Smith <apps@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Searching for "PHP CRUD" in hopes of learning the best way to access > databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. > > I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one > uses it or it's great or what? > > Thanks > I like working with PDO. I use a very thin set of wrapper functions to automatically grab the connection information from a config file, cause errors to be thrown as exceptions, and make sure the results are formatted as arrays. It works very well and relatively fast. Adam -- Nephtali: A simple, flexible, fast, and security-focused PHP framework http://nephtaliproject.com