Hi, I've read several posts touching this subject, but I didn't find one that asks a simple question I've been wondering about since I first used PHP and that is also one of the two really really bad things about PHP (the other being lack of OO): Why isn't there a DB abstraction layer right in PHP, so people writing some web app for redistribution don't have to care about the different DBs themselves? Why is there no modularization in this area, such that it'd be the _normal_ way not to write things like $dbh = ibase_pconnect( ... ), but $dbh = sql_connect( "Firebird", ... ) and that would internally check if a Firebird/InterBase driver is available and if so, use it. Surely there are some differences in SQL conformance and syntax extensions, but even that could be handled by such a layer to some extent. Thanks for any insight, -Malte -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
