Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-04-15 Severity: wishlist * Package name : php-db Version : 1.6.2 Upstream Author : Stig Bakken, Thomas Cox, Chuck Hagenbuch, Daniel Convissor * URL : http://pear.php.net/ * License : PHP Description : PEAR DB modules for PHP
DB is a database abstraction layer providing: * an OO-style query API * portability features that make programs written for one DBMS work with other DBMS's * a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers * prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support it natively * a result object for each query response * portable error codes * sequence emulation * sequential and non-sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching * formats fetched rows as associative arrays, ordered arrays or objects * row limit support * transactions support * table information interface * DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. The currently supported extensions are: dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, mysqli, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and sybase. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux nullcode.org 2.6.4-linode1-1um #3 Sat Mar 20 18:20:58 EST 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C