Re: MySQLi

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> Op 15 sep. 2014 om 01:08 heeft Karl DeSaulniers <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Procedural php. Haven't had a chance to learn OOP. Would love to though. : /
> I think I may be moling it a bit too. Guess I was hoping for an easy fix, don't judge me.. :P
> Thanks for all your responses everyone. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Karl DeSaulniers
> Design Drumm
> http://designdrumm.com
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 2:48 AM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 14/09/14 04:57, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
>>> Awesome, thanks for the link. I know even less about PDO then I do regular MySQL however.
>>> I am hoping MySQLi isn't too far off a shoot. Just need to sit down with it all and figure out a path.
>> 
>> PDO is still a bit of a grey area. It was intended to make changes
>> between database engines more transparent, and MySQL to MySQLi is
>> essentially just a different front end both targeting MySQL. The problem
>> is that it only ever did half the job, trying to make the data returned
>> 'transparent' while ignoring the SQL. Aziz's approach is one way of
>> going, but just like the e_strict problems with PHP itself, it's the
>> subtle changes to the language used which cause problems when
>> 'translating' from one to the other. It will depend on the style of
>> MySQL you are using currently as to how easy it is to 'translate'. My
>> own database is Firebird which has SQL functions that have yet to appear
>> in MySQL, some of those are exposed in MySQLi so you can ignore them
>> when upgrading but it is always those fringe cases that take the most
>> time to resolve? :(
>> 
>> -- 
>> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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Problem with easy fixes is that they lead to tremendous problems. Best is to take the more difficult road, it'll be way quicker.
Yup off topic I know

Jasper
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