Hey Paul, Google for adodb, it's the first few hits, at least in my search. adodb is a standard php database abstraction layer, so if the mdb2 says its like adodb, then yeah it sounds like an abstraction and not a storage engine.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > I was reading the documentation for MDB2. It said that it is an > abstraction layer for PHP. Pardon my lack of understanding, but I just > want to make sure that my understanding is correct. It appears to me > that MDB2 is a database interface (such as ODBC and OLE-DB), and it is > not actually a database (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL). Is my > understanding correct? They compare it to DB and ADODB, but I am not > familiar with those terms, and widipedia doesn't have entries for > them. > > Thanks > Paul > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What are some of the main reasons you recommend MDB2? I understand that >>> it is supported in the Pear community. Is it 100% GPL ? other reasons... >> >> Database independence. Which probably you do not care about short-term. >> You may or may not care long-term, which is really hard to predict. >> Either way, hard to go wrong by starting out with MDB2. >> /Randall >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- Regards... Todd I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. -- Marcus Aurealius _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
